Fresh root decoction is given to drink with a piece of jaggery to cure headaches.

ഇതിന്റെ വേരുകൾ കരിപ്പെട്ടിക്കൊപ്പം കുറുക്കി തലവേദന ശമിപ്പിക്കുന്നതിനായി ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്നു.

Evergreen trees growing to a height of around 15m. Has greyish-brown bark with vertical striations, 6-8 mm thick, branchlets terete, glabrous. Leaves simple, attenuate, bifarious, elliptic-oblong, elliptic, oblong or ovate-oblong, base acute, obtuse or round, apex acuminate or obtusely acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; stipules lateral, lanceolate, cauducous; petiole 10-20 mm long, stout, grooved above, glabrous. Male flowers: yellow, solitary or clustered in axillary spikes of 1-3.5 cm long; bracts ovate, ciliate, flowers 1-3 in each bract; tepals 4, ovate, ciliate; stamens 2-3, from the centre of the flower; filaments free; anthers didynamous. Female flowers: pale green, 3-8 together, in densely tomentose small racemes; pedicellate; bracts concave, ciliate, imbricate; tepals 4, larger than males; ovary superior, flask-shaped, thinly hispid; 2-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; styles 2-3. Fruit a capsule globose, yellow, glabrous, pointed with the style; aril orange-yellow; seed one, brown, planoconvex.