It acts as a anticancer, hepatoprotective brain stimulant or enhance the memory, antioxidant as well as antidiabetic,

The whole plant and seed extracts are useful in stomatitis, piles, sterility in female, hematemesis, insomnia, epilepsy, psychosis, and polyurea.

The root bark is diuretic ,laxative, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic properties , purgative, ophthalmic, anthelmintic, depurative, aphrodisiac.

Useful in indigestion, constipation, sore throat, skin diseases, eye ailments, tubercular glands, amentia, hemicrania, burning sensation, strangury, leprosy, leucoderma, elephantiasis, arthritis, bronchitis, asthma, pulmonary tuberculosis, ascites, ulcers, visceromegaly, and as a poultice for joints

The leaves are recommended for treatment of nostalgia and eruptions. The root, stem, and flower are given in snakebite and scorpion sting.

The seeds are purgative, cathartic, and useful in visceralgia.