Fruits eaten fresh, dried like raisins, candied, stewed or smoked. Tree also yields fodder and is grown for wind-breaks. Large-sized fruits, which have just began to turn yellow are chosen for candying. Fruits of wild trees considered cooling, anodyne, and tonic. They enter into the preparation of Joshanda, a medicine used in chest troubles. Kernels sedative, used as a soporific and to stop vomiting; also employed as an antidote to aconite-poisoning and for abdominal pain in pregnancy. Seeds are given in diarrhoea. Badari is mentioned in old literature in the list of contracptives. Seeds yield a fatty oil. Leaves eaten with catechu as an astringent; considered diaphoretic. Wood used for wells, axe-and hoe-handles, gun-stocks, sandals, yokes, toys, parts of wheels, and turnery.