Fruits are often eaten freshly mixed with sugar, salt or dirujak. Cerme is also often made sweets, boiled (set up) or made a refreshing drink. The young leaves are used as a salad.
The leaves and seeds of this plant have health benefits. The leaves for cough with phlegm, body straightening, nausea, cancer and mouth ulcers. While the seeds for constipation and nausea. Decoction of the root of the mirror is used to relieve asthma and treat skin diseases. Tanners are also produced from the root bark.
Mirror trees are often planted as a shade or decorate the yard and garden. This tree can grow in the tropics and subtropics, like a damp place to a height of about 1,000 m above sea level. Cerme can be cultured by seed or cuttings