Folkloric 

• For lumbago, weak kidney, neurasthenia, urine retention, chronic nephritis, impotency, bed-wetting.

• Hypertension among women at late ages, chronic arthritis.

• Weakening of the knees and lumbar regions, numbness of the limbs, rheumatic arthritis.

• Given with milk and sugar for gonorrhea, leucorrhea, and menstrual derangements.

• In Ayurveda, increases kapha and reduces vata and pitta; used for treatment of piles, asthma, gonorrhea, biliousness, fatigue and blood disorders. Also considered a sexual tonic.

• In Unani, used for bronchitis, ophthalmic, indigestion, vomiting, diarrhea, lumbago, joint pains.

• In India, Pakistan and China, tuberous roots have been used for cancer, jaundice, asthma, wound healing. Rhizome juice extract has been used as tonic to overcome impotence.

• In India, plant rhizome has been used as an aphrodisiac. Plant paste applied to skin for itchy afflictions; also applied to hemorrhoids to relieve pain and itching. Also used for gonorrhea, jaundice, vomiting.

• In traditional Chinese medicine, used for the treatment of impotence, limb weakness, osteoarthritis of the knees and lumbar spine, and watery diarrhea. 

• In Kerala, India, decoction of tubers drunk as nutritive; decoction of rhizomes used as aphrodisiac and for leucorrhea; paste of tubers applied to bone fractures.