The entire plant is very mucilaginous and the bruised fresh leaves are applied like poultices to cancers and Ulcerating tumors.
"The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines"
T. H. Pardo de Tavera
There is generally a history of prolonged or repeated irritation, or the condition may develop in connection with a scar, a wart, a cutaneous horn, or an Ulcerating sebaceous cyst.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson
On the fifth day the Ulcerating gland burst outside and the parotid gland became relieved.
"Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms"
Charles Munde