For dislocated joints, for burns, in treating irritated mucous membranes within the digestive and urinary tracts (plant); to soothe burns and scalds (crushed leaves)
In the treatment of rheumatism, numbness, traumatic injuries, wounds and snakebites; applied to the area around dislocated bones to help them setting (root paste)
In asthma (leaf) and increasing the secretion of gastric juices (fruit); as an eye-drop to cure opacities of the eye (stem juice); to treat dislocated bones and to heal wounds (bark juice); for curing skin diseases (root bark).