Sacred Indian plant, ayurvedic, fruits edible, remedy for tooth pain, bonsai material, ornamental. The leaves are used to remedy dysentery and diarrhoea. They are used in a decoction with toasted rice as a diaphoretic. The bark is tonic and diuretic. An infusion is antidiabetic and a decoction is used as an astringent in the treatment of leucorrhoea. The fruit is tonic and has a cooling effect. 

ആയുർവേദ ഔഷധത്തിൽ ധാരാളമായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു. പല്ലുവേദനയ്ക്ക് ഔഷധമാണ്. ഇലകൾ വയറിളക്കത്തിനും അതിസാരത്തിനും മരുന്നായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു.

Ficus benghalensis are spreading trees; aerial roots numerous from the branches. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral. Flowers unisexual; inflorescence a syconia; flowers of 4 kinds; male flowers dispersed with female; tepals 2-3, brownish,  glabrous; stamens 1; female flowers sesile; tepals 3-4, shortly connate, brownish, ovary superior; style erect or curved; gall flowers similar to female but pedicellate. Syconium - ripening orange to red.