carica papaya
Carica papaya (ANTICTERIC – VERMIFUGE)
Common name: Papaya.
African names - Wolof: papayo--Bambara: papiu, papia- Peuhl: papayi, papayo
-Goun and Fon: Gbakpe.
Use .
It is a plant native to Central America introduced and cultivated around villages and in African gardens. The medicinal uses of Papaya are varied, but we can distinguish three main properties: anti-jaundice (all parts of the plant: leaves, fruits and bark), vermifuges (latex from the fruits), diuretics (roots and leaves). jaundice, one treatment is to boil a green fruit cooked with chicken and add the roots of Tinospora bakis to it. It is an unappetizing drug but which is effective for yellowing.
Description.
It is a small fruit tree reaching 2 to 10 meters in height at
was straight. The leaves are grouped. All parts of the plant contain latex. Papaya is most often dioecious. The fleshy fruit is an ovoid berry*, of variable size, shape and color depending on the variety. It should be noted that the tree being dioecious, we do not know when planting the seeds if we will have a female or male tree. If the fruits seem scarce, it is customary to split the trunk of the tree transversely with a machete at the bottom and on the side facing the sun. This apparently makes it possible to transform a male and sterile tree into a tree that bears fruit. Please to contact us .
Jobs
--Icterus
boil a green fruit cooked with chicken and add roots of Tinospora bakis to it
--Towards
To get rid of pinworms, whipworms and roundworms, take 4-8 grams of fresh latex for children and double that for adults. Then take a laxative to eliminate the worms.
NB: Find out more in the section, papaya tree of life.
Last edited: 11/08/2022
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