Grown as an Ornamental and is used as an aromatherapeutic. In Chinese medicine, a decoction of the leaves is taken to treat bruises, chronic dysentery, stomach ache, swellings and skin irritations. It is also used to relieve pain. Leaves are also used in other countries as a tonic, to cure toothache and herpes and to expel tapeworms in Malaysia; as a stimulant in Indonesia; to increase the menstrual flow and to treat diarrhoea and dysentery in the Philippines; and for fever and dysentery in Indochina. 

അലങ്കാരച്ചെടിയായും സുഗന്ധദ്രവ്യങ്ങൾക്കു പരിമളം നല്കാനും ഉയോഗിക്കുന്നു. വേദന സംഹാരിയായി ഉപയോഗിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു. പല്ലുവേദന, ലൈംഗികജന്യരോഗങ്ങളുടെയും ചികിത്സക്ക് ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു.

Shrubs or small trees; bark pale greyish to white.  Leaves 3-7 foliolate; leaflets ovate to elliptic-ovate or rhomboid, shortly acuminate at apex,  attenuate at base, glabrous.  Panicles few-flowered, from the axils of upper leaves; peduncle 2-3 cm long.  Calyx lobes 5, ovate.  Petals 5, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, white.  Stamens 10.  Disc annular.  Ovary oblong, 2 celled; ovules 1 in each cell; stigma capitate.  Berry ellipsoid, acute, red.