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Used for relieving chest pains (sometimes known as "heartache leaf") and managing pain from traumatic injuries or broken bones.

known for its medicinal properties, including alleviating chest pains, treating fever, diarrhea, liver poisoning, and parturition complications, with leaves and roots used in herbal remedies.

leaves are used to treat scabies, herpes, gonorrhea, venereal diseases, complications of parturition, and retrosternal pains.

Leaf preparations are applied topically to treat skin conditions like scabies, as well as measles.

the fruit is used to treat intestinal worms.

Extracts have demonstrated activity against bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli, and some research indicates anti-HIV potential.

may have anticancer properties, particularly against liver cancer cells.

Ardisia elliptica extracts can suppress the mRNA expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase, leading to inhibition of nitric oxide production; anti inflammatory.

The leaves are eaten raw as a salad or cooked.