The tree is handsome, 12 to 16 feet high; trunk about 5 feet long; wood light and white coloured; bark brown; leaves lanceolate, bright green, entire; flowers small reddish, almost odourless; fruit yellowy red, smooth; rind fleshcoloured; pulp white; when seeds are ripe they rattle in the capsule when shaken; each capsule contains about twenty-five seeds.

Antiseptic, diuretic, ecbolic, emmenagogue and parasiticide

Theobroma cacao L.
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Acetic acid, alanine, arginine, caffeic acid, citric acid, coumarin, dopamine, epigallocatechine, ergosterol, esculetin, ferulic acid, formic acid, glutamic acid, glycine, histidine, lactic acid, oleic acid, oxalic acid, p-coumaric acid, p-hydroxy benzoic acid, palmitic acid, pantothenic acid, phenylalanine, protocatechuic acid, pyridoxine, salsolinol, syringic acid, tartaric acid, trigonelline, tyrosine, valeric acid, valine, vanillic acid (seed); ascorbic acid, niacin, riboflavin, thiamin (fruit, seed); beta-carotene, catechol, cyanidin, leucine, linoleic acid, luteolin, nicotinic acid, sinapic acid, stearic acid, stigmasterol, tyramine, vitexin (plant); beta-sitosterol, biotin (sprout seedling); chlorogenic acid, epicatechin, gentisic acid, glycolic acid, kaempferol, quercetin, quercitrin, rutin, rutoside (leaf); theobromine, theophylline (petiole, seed, testa)

For alopecia, burns, cough, dry lips, eyes, fever, listlessness, malaria, nephrosis, parturition, pregnancy, rheumatism, snakebite and wounds.