Sacred Indian plant, timber yielding, remedy for skin disorders. Its bark, known as Dita Bark, is a bitter, astringent, alternative herb used in traditional medicine to treat dysentery and fever, to relax spasms, stimulate lactation and expel intestinal worms. In Ayurveda it is used as a bitter and as an astringent herb for treating skin disorders, malarial fever, urticaria, chronic dysentery, diarrhoea, in snake bite and for upper purification process of Panchakarma. The milky juice of the tree is applied to ulcers. The leaves are used for treating beriberi, dropsy and congested liver and is applied as a wash for skin diseases, and as a gargle. An infusion of the crushed leaves is used to clean infected wounds.

ത്വക്‌രോഗ സംബന്ധിയായ രോഗങ്ങൾക്ക് ഔഷധമായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു. പാലയുടെ ഇലകൾ ചതച്ചു പിഴിഞ്ഞെടുത്ത സത്ത് പഴുത്തു തുടങ്ങിയ വ്രണങ്ങളെ വൃത്തിയാക്കാൻ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു.

Large trees (height to 30 m) with grey-brown surface, irregularly cracked having milky white latex. Branchlets whorled. Leaves simple, whorled obovate, oblanceolate or obovate-oblong, margin entire, glabrous. Flower bisexual, greenish-white in terminal umbellate cymes. Calyx cupular, lobes 5, ovate. Corolla salver shaped, 5 lobed, obovate to orbicular, creamy yellow. Stamens 5, carpels 2, numerous ovules; filiform style; obconic stigma. Fruit a pendulous follicular mericarp. seeds 5-6 mm long, flat.