karavira :

Use in other system of medicine:

Folkloric

- Herpes zoster (skin): Crush leaves, mix with oil and apply on lesions. Do not apply on raw surface. Milky juice of the plant is irritating. Caution: Not to be taken internally.

- Herpes simplex: Mix 1 cup of chopped leaves and bark with 2 tablespoons of oil. Apply to lesions 3 times daily.

- Ringworm: Chop a foot long branch and mix with 1 cup chopped fresh young leaves. Mix the juice with 5 drops of fresh coconut oil. Apply 3 times daily.

- Snake bites: Pound 10 leaves and a piece of branch. Apply poultice to the wound.

- Root used, locally and internally, by women in western and southern India and in the central Malay Peninsula for suicide and for procuring criminal abortion.

- Past of bark of the roots is applied externally for ringworm.

- Used in leprosy, skin eruptions, and boils.

- In the Punjab and Cashmere areas, roots are used for asthma.

- Leaves used in the treatment of malaria and dysmenorrhea; also used as abortifacient.

- Roots, made into paste with water, used for hemorrhoids.

- Leaves and bark used externally for eczema, snake bites and as insecticide; internally, used for epilepsy.

- Dried leaves used as sternutatory.

- Infusion of leaves and fruit used a cardiac regulator.

- In Morocco, fresh leaves applied to tumors to hasten suppuration.

- In traditional Chinese medicine, the flowers and leaves have been used to stimulate the cardiac muscles, relieve pain and eliminate blood stasis.

Others

- Skin care: Formulated as age-defying skin care product.