Flowers edible and used as a sweetener. The flowers are used as tonic, analgesic and diuretic, traditionally used as cooling agent, tonic, aphrodisiac, astringent, demulcent and for the treatment of helminths, acute and chronic tonsillitis, pharyngitis as well as bronchitis. Oil is obtained from the seed. Mahua oil is used for manufacturing laundry soaps and detergent. It is also used as cooking oil by some tribal communities in India.The dark red wood has timber value. Possess significant antipyretic, hepatoprotective, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antitumour, antiprogestational, antiestrogenic and wound healing activity. Traditionally M. longifolia bark is used in rheumatism, ulcers, bleedings and tonsillitis. The bark is a good remedy for itch, swelling, fractures and snake-bite poisoning.  Madhuca longifolia leaves are expectorant.

പൂക്കൾ ഭക്ഷ്യയോഗ്യമാണ്. മധുരം നല്കാനായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു.

Medium-sized to large much-branched deciduous trees. Leaves crowded at apex of year's growth, 6-15 x 1.5-4 cm, narrowly oblong, elliptic, oblanceolate or obovate, rounded to acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous when mature, midrib and petiole silky hairy at first; lateral nerves about 10-12 pairs; venation reticulate; petioles slender, 1-2.5 cm long. Flowers solitary in axils of small deciduous bracts; pedicels slender, 3-5 cm long, somewhat thickened toward apex, glabrous, at first erect then drooping. Sepals ovate, 8 x 6 mm, acuminate, the outer pair usually nearly glabrous and darker, the inner finely tometose and paler. Corolla yellowish, whitish or yellowish green, fleshy; tube inflated, 8 mm long; lobes 8-12, oblong, about as long as tube, obtuse, erose. Anthers 16-24, those of the upper whorl sessile, hairy. Style exserted 2 cm. Fruit yellow, oblong or oblong-ellipsoid, 33.5 x 1.7-2.3 cm; seeds ochraceous, ovoid, slightly compressed, one edge straight, the other curved, with short curved beak at both ends, shining.