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The plant is valued by the Birhor community mainly for its edible fruit, which is often gathered from the wild. It also supplies medicine and various materials for local use.

• Fruit: The fruits are eaten raw (berel) and have a pleasant sub-acid flavour.
• Flower: They boil and cook and eat the flowers (baha).
• Seed: They roast it and eat the seeds as a snack.

Medicinal values for: Skin diseases, headache, boils, pimples, wounds, cuts

• Bark: The bark (baklaʔ) is sometimes chewed (togoʧ) as a substitute for betel nut (pan kʰili).
• The bark (baklaʔ) after being soaked in water (daʔ-re lohotekana) for some time, when it becomes soft, is used as a poultice for treating skin ailments.
• The bark (baklaʔ) is also considered a cure for headache.
• Tree sap and juice (ros or rasa) of the bark (baklaʔ) is applied externally to boils, pimples, cuts and wounds.

Other uses. Wood: The wood (sahan) is also used to make planks (dirkʰa) which are used for different purposes.

Santali: dahu