CARICA PAPAYA LINN.
Papaw or papaya is one of the most common plants grown in tropical countries. It is an upright, usually branchless, fast-growing tree. The trunk is soft, greyish, and marked with fallen leaf scars. The leaves are deeply lobed, with long stalks, borne on the top of the tree. The male flowers are in long-stalked clusters, but the female flowers are stalkless or sessile. The fruit is obovoid, yellow-orange when ripe, fleshy, juicy, and often contains numerous black seeds although seedless varieties are also available today. It is a common fruit which is found in the market during the fruiting season.
Medicinal use:
The root
Papaw or papaya is one of the most common plants grown in tropical countries. It is an upright, usually branchless, fast-growing tree. The trunk is soft, greyish, and marked with fallen leaf scars. The leaves are deeply lobed, with long stalks, borne on the top of the tree. The male flowers are in long-stalked clusters, but the female flowers are stalkless or sessile. The fruit is obovoid, yellow-orange when ripe, fleshy, juicy, and often contains numerous black seeds although seedless varieties are also available today. It is a common fruit which is found in the market during the fruiting season.
The root
- As a tonic and as a medicine for excessive bleeding of the kidneys.
- To kill or expel worms from the body.The latex
- Corns and warts.
- Expels or kills worms from the body.
- Helps in digestion.
- Heals wounds and fresh cut.
- Treatment of ulcer, eczema, warts and boils.
- Remedy for hoarseness, cough, bronchitis, inflamed trachea, influenza and cough.
- Said to be an antidote for cancer.
- To kill or expel worms from the body.
- To clean the stomach and helps in the proper functioning of the liver.
- Remedy against tuberculosis.
- Promotes menstrual flow.
- Helps in digestion.
- Promotes flow of urine.
- Softens inflamed parts.
- Stomach and bowel diseases.
- Good for constipation, gastritis, diabetes, asthma, jaundice, flatulence, cough, chest problems, stomach and duodenal ulcers and indigestion.
- Painful rheumatism and tonsillitis.
- Removes spots and wrinkles from the face.
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