A very variable shrub, sometimes a small tree. Bark reddish brown, thin; leaves lanceolate to oblong; flowers in terminal corymbose panicles, mauve purple; fruit broadly ovoid, truncate, pulpy within.

Alleviates spasms, astringent (plant)

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Methionine, glycine, valine, leucine, tyrosine and aspartic and glutamic acids (leaf).

For smallpox (leaf paste), diarrhea (leaf powder) and wounds (bark paste); in diarrhoea, dysentery, cancer and leucorrhoea (plant); for healing wounds and other skin diseases (bark and roots)

Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.