A large, much-branched, evergreen shrub or a tree. Bark dull grey or grey-white, deeply cracked; leaves variable in shape, elliptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, somewhat fleshy; flowers pedicellate, greenish white or greenish yellow in lax panicles; drupes globose or round, smooth red when ripe.
Herb Effects
Antiviral (root); as a tonic and stimulant in low fevers and as an emmenagogue (bark); ascarifuge (stem bark); antiscorbutic and astringent (leaves); deobstruent, carminative, diuretic, lithontriptic, and stomachic (fruits); purgative, diuretic and tonic (seed)
Against gonorrhoea and vesical catarrh (root bark); to relieve the pain due to spleen troubles (root); for gastric troubles especially in gastric ulcers (stem bark); in asthma and cough, in rheumatism, a poultice made out of them is applied to painful tumours and piles (leaves); in biliousness and rheumatism (fruits).
Health Remedies 
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