PAPAYA
CARICA PAPAYA
PAPAYA
CARICA PAPAYA
Castilian:
papaya
,
papaya
, fruit bomb.
English
: papaw,
melon
tree.
The use of this plant is
common
in
almost
all countries and where they are used on fruit, leaves, seeds and latex, which were recommended to solve
problems
such as digestive type of pain and inflammation of the
stomach
,
diarrhea
and constipation, it is also Effective as vomiting and to fortify the
stomach
. It is also used very often against
intestinal
parasites in
children
, so it is recommended to eat the seeds half boiled with
a
little latex of the plant, or the fruit fasting for three days and prepared to ingest
a
tea
leaf. It is used in addition to chest pain,
asthma
,
bronchitis
,
diphtheria
and lung pain.
Shrub of 2 to 5 meters in height, single stem with leaves large, extended and with clefts. Its flowers are
yellow
and are linked to the trunk, where they exit from fleshy fruits. It is originally from
Mexico
and lives in warm climates, dry and semi. It grows in gardens and is linked to the tropical deciduous forest, subcaducifolia, subperennifolia,
evergreen
, mountain cloud forests of
oak
and
pine
.
Bibliography.
Bézanger - Beauquesne, L; Pinkas, M; Torck, M. Dans la Plantes Les Thérapeutiques Moderne. 2. Paris: Maloine, 1986, pp. 118 - 9.
James,
A
; Duke, Ph.
D
. Handbook of Medicinal Herbs. 5. Boca Raton,
Florida
: CRC Press, 1987, pp. 100 - 1; 518; 551.
Peris, JB; Stübing, G; Vanaclocha, B. Applied
Fitoterapia
. Valencia: M. I. Official College of Pharmacists, 1995, pp. 403 - 5.
Peris, JB; Stübing, G; Vanaclocha, B. Form phytotherapy. Valencia: M. I. Official College of Pharmacists, 1998 (in press)
Van Hellemont, J. Compendium of Phytothérapie. Bruxelles: Association Pharmaceutique Belge, 1986,
p
. 82.
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