Family:
Celastraceae.
English: Bittersweet; Staff tree; Fever twig.
Chemistry: sulphuric, phosphoric, hydrochloric and nitric acids, natural resin, starch, gum and volatile oils, naphthoquinone, celastrol.
General: antisyphilitic, indurated tumours and swellings, general weakness, scrophula, anaemia, diaphoretic.
Skin: swellings, ulcers, disorders of skin.
Abdomen: emetic, piles, stomach trouble, cathartic.
Liver: complaints of, jaundice, cholagogue, hepatic obstruction.
Urinary: diuretic.
Limbs: rheumatism.
Female: obstructions of women, swollen breasts.