HERBAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS - Carica Papaya (PAPAYA)

Papaya is cultivated for its ripe fruits, favored by tropical people, as breakfast fruit, and as an ingredient in jellies, preserves, or cooked in various ways; juice makes a popular beverage; young leaves, shoots, and fruits cooked as a vegetable. Latex used to remove freckles. Bark used for making rope. Leaves used as a soap substitute, are supposed to remove stains. Flowers eaten in Java. Papain, the proteolytic enzyme, has a wealth of industrial uses. It has milk-clotting (rennet) and protein digesting properties. Active over a wide pH range, papain is useful in medicine, combatting dyspepsia and other digestive orders. In liquid preparations it has been used for reducing enlarged tonsils.

Author: Himadri Panda

Publisher: Discovery Publishing House Pvt Limited

Publication Date: Apr 01, 2017

Number of Pages: 402 pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 9350568349

ISBN-13: 9789350568347