Externally it is rubefacient, stimulant to skin and resolvent. Extract and essential oil is reported to be antifungal, antibacterial.
Fruits exhibit taenicidal action.
Chavacine is a soluble pungent concrete resin. Seed's fatty acids contain palmitic, linoleic, oleic, linolenic acids and slight flouride. They are not claimed to cure any doctor-defined disease. All supplementation here should be considered food and not medication. Although information presented by the Institute is based on Ayurvedic principles practiced for thousands of years, it should not be taken or construed as standard medical diagnosis or treatment.