[3] The leaves can be wrapped around tobacco to create the Indian beedi,[4] which has outsold conventional cigarettes in India.

[7] The pentacyclic triterpenes found in the leaves possess antimicrobial properties,[8] while the bark shows antihyperglycemic activity.

[9] The bark of four Diospyros species found in India has been determined to have significant antiplasmodial effects against Plasmodium falciparum, which causes malaria in humans.

Due to the non-flammable nature of the tree, after the plantation of paddy, the tribes plant a branch of it in the field in order to protect the crop from any events of Sengael Deaah in the future.

A young and straight branch of the tree is heated in fire and slowly shaped into the curves of a hockey stick.