madhukarkai :
Use in other system of medicine:
Edibility / Nutritional
- Food: Fresh fruit and preserved rind.
- Fresh fruit is a good source of vitamin B, iron and calcium.
Folkloric
- Nausea and fainting: Squeeze rind near nostrils for patient to inhale.
- In the Philippines, leaves are used for aromatic baths.
- Infusion or decoction of flowers, leaves and pericarp used as sedative for nervous affections; also for coughs and ulcers.
- Peel or rind, dried or in decoction, used for dyspepsia.
- Boiled seeds in a gallon of water can be used for sitz-baths.
- In Malaya, lotion of boiled leaves used for painful swellings.
In the Himalayas, fruit juice recommended for ulcers; used in diabetes; and mixed with black pepper and a little rock salt, used for malaria. Fruit juice with its pulp, with honey, is given to improve urinary flow.
Others
- Wood: Potential source of firewood. Heavy, hard and tough wood suitable for making tool handles.
- Essential oil: Fruits and leaves yield essential oil that serve as perfumery and toiletry ingredients.
- Fodder: Pulp molasses and residues from juice extraction use as cattle feed.
- Apiculture: Tree is a valued honey plant.
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