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- In the Cordilleras, used to treat nausea, headache, fainting, malaria, and sore throat.

- Nausea and fainting: Squeeze rind near nostril for irritant inhalation.

- Decoction of roots used for dysentery; root-bark as febrifuge.

- Crushed leaves applied to forehead for headaches.

- Leaf decoction for eyewash and to bathe a feverish patient.

- Mouthwash and gargle for sore throat and thrush.

- Decoction of pounded leaves, with leaves of Areca catechu, drunk for stomachache.

- Externally, fresh juice is used to clean wounds; roasted, for chronic sores.

- Juice used for irritation and swelling of mosquito bites.

- Poultice of leaves applied to ulcer wounds.

- Lime oil extracted by steam distillation of the fruit rinds used for colds, sore throats, bronchitis, asthma.

- Used for arthritis, obesity, cellulite and as tonic and astringent.

- Malays sip the fruit juice as a remedy for coughs.

- In Senegal and Sierra Leone, juice, sometimes mitigated by being mixed with oil, used as vermifuge.

- Poultice of leaves for skin diseases or on the abdomen after childbirth.

- In Malaya, root decoction used for dysentery.

- In Yucatan, root decoction used for gonorrhea.

- In southwest Nigeria, roots, bark, stem, twigs, leaves and fruit used in treatment of malaria.

- In Pakistan, Northern Ethiopia, and Nigeria, plant and fruit used in the treatment of hypertension and other cardiac problems. (17)

 

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