This plant is in almost all the country; it is used fundamentally to cure the nerves. The treatment consists of cooking the flower and taking it as water from use; also one is used for sournesses, amoebas, bile, diarrea, disentería, vomit, tifoidea and stomach ache. In affections like cough, gripa, pain and infection of throat and ronquera, the infusion is taken as water from use the fruit with rniel or the rind of the lemon with cinnamon. The lemon juice, that is one of the used parts more, for the good operation of the kidney is used and to treat spots in the skin. Other sufferings dealt with the fruit are hepáticos diabetes, problems, conjuntivitis and fever.
Shrub of 2 to 4 ms of height, very graft and with strong thorns. The leaves are wide and with a short support; their small and white flowers originate fruits of green and yellow color when they mature. It inhabits in climates warm, semiwarm, semidry and tempering. It is cultivated in houses and she is associate with the tropical forest caducifolia, subcaducifolia and perennifolia; scrub xerófilo, forests mesófilo of mountain, and compound of encino and pine.