Sounds like it could be the 'Cucumber Tree'
(Kamias – Scientific name: Averrhoa bilimbi)
Got some highly interesting uses:-
- Skin diseases, especially with pruritus: Reduce the leaves to a paste and apply
tolerably warm to areas of affected skin.
- Post-partum and rectal inflammation: Infusion of leaves.
- Mumps, acne, and localized rheumatic complaints: Paste of leaves applied to affected
areas.
- Warm paste of leaves also used for pruritus.
- Cough and thrush: Infusion of flowers, 40 grams to a pint of boiling water, 4 glasses
of tea daily.
- Fever: Fruit as a cooling drink.
- The fruit has been used for a variety of maladies: beriberi, cough, prevention of
scurvy.
- Infusion of leaves also drank as a protective tonic after childbirth.
Others
- Fruit used to remove stains from clothing and for washing hands.
- A common seasoning for sweets and pickling.
Uses Sourced from:-
http://www.filipinoherbshealingwonde...com/kamias.htm