the whole herb is used in insanity, tuberculous glands, indigestion, bronchitis, spleen diseases, elephantiasis, anaemia, pain in the uterus and vagina, piles, biliousness, epileptic convulsions, asthma, leukoderma, dysentery, vomiting, urinary discharges, pain in the rectum, looseness of the breasts, hemicrania. The whole herb is used in Ayurvedic preparations to treat epilepsy and mental disorders. Leaves dried in the shade and powdered are used in doses of 20 grains twice a day in chronic skin diseases as an antisyphilitic and a nervine tonic. Hot water extract of the herb is used as an anthelminitic, as a diuretic, as a fish poison and as an aphrodisiac. Flowers are tonic, cooling, alterative and used in conjunctivitis and give strength to weak eyes. The oil prepared using the plant root is reportedly useful in treating scrofula and as an aphrodisiac. The external application of a paste of this herb is beneficial in treating pruritus and edema, arthritis, filariasis, gout and cervical adenopathy. Pulverized seeds have antimicrobial property. It is also stuffed into holes of crabs to kill them. Aqueous extract is poisonous to American cockroaches. In unani, the herb is used as a tonic, laxative, emmenagogue, and also it increases the appetite, enriches the blood, lessens inflammation, cools the brain and gives luster to the eye, is good for sore eyes, jaundice, scalding of urine, gleet, biliousness, boils, scabies, ringworm in the waist, diseases of the chest. The plant is traditionally used for diarrhoea.The entire plant is used as an emmenogogue. Hot water extract of the entire plant is used for glandular swelling of the neck and for jaundice.

Не поняла декоративной ценности, если честно.... На Волге сорняк. Мангостан - то да! И вкусно и красиво.