Homeopaths use the plant for bronchitis, colds, flu, laryngitis, and rheumatism. In Australila, the leaves of the bluegum are still widely used as a household remedy in the treatment of many diseases and minor complaints. In Britain and Europe the essential oil, which is powerfully antiseptic, was given for fevers and febrile conditions, for pulmonary tuberculosis, and was applied or inhaled for relieving asthma, bronchitis, sorethroat, croup, whooping-cough, scarlet fever, and even diptheria and typhoid. Europeans in Africa and Africans themselves may wear the leaf in the hat or place it around the residence as a flu preventative. It is also regarded as a malaria preventitive.
African herbalists believe the root is purgative.
Tannin is not so copious in the leaves as of many other Eucalyptus species. Verma et al. Root system deep and spreading. Stamens many, threadlike, white, anthers oblong opening in broad slits with round gland. Germplasm Reported from the Australian Center of Diversity, bluegum, or cvs thereof is reported to tolerate narrower extremes of temperature and soil than many of the more tropical species.