Botany
Dulsis is a small tree growing to a height of about 15 meters, which is smooth throughout. Leaves are somewhat leathery, ovate-lanceolate and elliptic-lanceolate, 8 to 12 cm long, 3.5 to 5 cm wide, the base rounded and the apex pointed. Flowers are dioecious. Male flowers are in short, peduncled cymes, with five broad, obtuse, imbricate sepals. Stamens are 5, erect; and the pistillode wooly. Female flowers are axillary and solitary; sepals are narrow and acute. Drupe is usually 2-keeled, 12 to 18 mm long, and ovoid; the pedicel is as long as the fruit; the endocarp, hard.

Distribution
In forests at medium altitudes, in the Camarines Provinces of Luzon, and Davao in Mindanao.
Occurs in India and Ceylon to Java and Celebes.

Constituents
Yields a crystalline substance, lime methyl-indole or skatole.

Properties
Depurative.

Parts used
Bark.

Uses
Folkloric
Bark taken internally with lemon juice as a purifier of blood, for itches and other cutaneous eruptions.
In Sri Lanka, used as depurative; for eruptions and itches.
In India, used as blood-purifier in itchy and cutaneous eruptions; mixed with lemon juice and applied externally.

Availability
Wild-crafted.

Additional Sources and Suggested Readings
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Gironniera reticulata / Indian Medicinal Plants