Both of these are specially poisonous, particularly the seeds. They are used In treating leprosy, goitre and piles.
A General Preventive: A common procedure that is taken recourse to prevent the infection with any contageous disease is to wear a garland of the beads made up of the seeds of this plant. Such garlands are also hung over the doors and windows of the houses in the form of torana.
Scald Head: This is a disease [ganz in Hindi) wherein pimples appear on the head. The pulp of the fruit is mixed with fat and applied over the head. Another procedure is to bum the seeds in mustard oil and then thoroughly pulverise them with the same oil. This is then applied over the head and rubbed in as well to some extent.
Piles: Take the fruits of this tree that fall down on their own viz those that are fully ripe. Take them in adequate quantities. Grind the inner seed along with the shell and make this into large pills like the wild ber fruits (Zizyphus). Dry these pills in shade. Take one pill at a time morning and evening along with water in which bamboo shoots are soaked overnight. In addition, crush one or two pills in jaggery water and keep this applying over the outgrowths of the piles. The latter will shrink and soon wither away.
A very effective remedy for piles is: take equal quantity of seeds of bakayan, aloes (eluva in Hindi) or hared (Terminalia. belerica) and powder them well. Mix it well with the juice of Blumea balsamifera DC (kukurandha in Hindi). Make this into pills of the size of two gunz (Abnis seeds). Take two pills each in the morning and night along with water. The flow of haemorrhage will stop and the habitual constipation associated with piles will also disappear.
Leprosy: Take two sers of ripe yellow seeds. Soak one ser of the seeds out of this in water for seven days. Filter out the dredges and keep the water apart. Powder the other half of the seeds to a fine degree. Place about one tola of this powder in the mouth and drink a cup of the water (prepared as above) over this. A twenty days of treatment is adequate to secure a considerable relief. Diet reaction is to eat only rotts (i.e. bread) of gram flour and cow’s milk.
Urinary Diseases: Take one or two seeds and grind them in rice water. Add ghee and take them in. Even chronic and very old urinary disorders become rectified. albuminuria (a type of kapha born prameha), take four parts of the seed powder, one part each of mica and vanga bhasma, and mercuric oxide (rasa sindhur) in two parts. Mix them all well and keep. One ratti of this is to be licked along with honey followed by turmeric powder and honey again. This is considered to be a sure cure for even impossible urinary dysfunctions. This Yoga is called nttyarogeshwari yoga. If the disorder is due to pitta dosha, there is no need to take turmeric.