Star fruit usage medicine
Arelated species of carambola, A belimbi, is used commonly in tradisional Malay medicine. Sometimes carambola free part are substituted for part of A bilimbi, though this not a widely practised feature. Malays crush the leaves and fruits white in india and china, the roots were made into a decoction with other ingredients and used to treat poisonin. A conserve of the fruit is used to treat drunk people for bad bilious attacks and diarrhoea. Carambola fruit juiceis used as body coolant and drunk by those suffering from fever. In Indochina, lacquer workers rubbed the flowrs over the flower over theitchy or sore parts of their skin, a condition arising from exposure to laquer. The inner portion of the bark was used along with sandal wood as a powder application for prickly heat. The leaves, roots and stem of carambola tree is believed to contain hydrocyanic acid.]
