Edibility

- Used as a famine food in India in 1877-1878.

- In China, young leaves are eaten cooked.

- Leaves added to soup; prior parboiling advised to removed acridity from calcium oxalate crystals. 

Folkloric

- Infusion of leaves used for dropsy, bladder complaints, kidney afflictions, diabetes, hematuria, dysentery, and anemia.

- Used for dysuria and as an expectorant.

- Poultice of pounded leaves used in hemorrhoids, tumors and boils.

- The juice of leaves, mixed with coconut oil, is used for a variety of chronic skin conditions.

- Leaves mixed with rice and coconut milk, given for dysentery; with rose water and sugar, used for coughs and asthma.

- Ash of the plant applied to ringworm

- Powdered dry leaves mixed with a little honey used for syphilis, 3 to 4 teaspoons a day.

- Leaves used for treatment of ringworm of scalp, syphylitic eruptions, skin infections, boils and wounds.

- Oil extract used for worm infestations, tuberculosis, asthma, dysentery, piles, ulcers, burns.

- Used for menorrhagia.

- Ash of leaves applied to ringworm of the scalp.

- In Gambia, plant is used as an anodyne eyewash.

- In China, used in various prescriptions for boils, syphilitic eruptions and skin complaints.

- In the Peruvian Amazon, used for arthritis.

- In Indian traditional medicine, leaves are used for the treatment of ringworm infection of the scalp, syphilitic eruptions, skin infections, dysuria, boils and wounds. Oil extract used for worm infestations, TB, asthma, dysentery, hemorrhoids, ulcers, syphilitic infections and burns.

- Owing to high potash content, used as diuretic; also used for gonorrhea.

Others

- Fodder: Sometimes used for feeding hogs and ducks.

- Soap: Used for making soap in West Tropical Africa. 

- Stain removal: Plant used with soap to removed stains out of clothing. 

- Insecticidal: Leaves considered insecticidal.