Canthium parviflorum Lam

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Carray cheddile is a shrub, usually with opposite horizontal thorns a little above the leaf axils. However, sometimes the shrub is nearly unarmed. Leaves are ovate, smooth, often fascicled on young shoots. Short, few flowered racemes arise in leaf axils. Flowers are small, yellow with 4 stamens. Flowers are bearded in the throat. Tube is short, with 4-5 spreading petals. Anthers are inserted into the throat, scarcely protruding. Style protrudes out. Stigma is somewhat spherical. Fruits are obovate, furrowed on each side.
The root of Carray cheddile is a remedy for the swelling that occurs the whole body due to viper bite.