Medicinal plants have played an essential role in the development of human culture. Originally derived from the southern part of mexico, carica papaya is a perennial plant, and it is presently distributed over the whole tropical area. Even papaina digestive enzyme found in papaya is extracted, dried as a powder and used as an aid in digestion. India 2malacology laboratory, department of zoology, ddu gorakhpur university, gorakhpur, u. Background carica papaya, treelike herb, is cultivated in more than 50 tropical and subtropical countries in the world. Aqueous extract of carica papaya leaves exhibits antitumor. Carica papaya foi a primeira fruteira transgenica a ter o seu genoma integralmente sequenciado. Nutraceutical potential of carica papaya in metabolic syndrome.
Papaya caracteristicas, fruto, propiedades y beneficios. The fruit is consumed worldwide as fresh fruit and as a vegetable or used as. Papaya are generally grown from shoots, seeds and tissue culture. Its origin is in the tropics of the americas, perhaps. Analisis del perfil metabolico en carica papaya durante. Traditional and medicinal uses of carica papaya aravind. The fruit is consumed worldwide as fresh fruit and vegetable or used as processed product. Papaya is commonly known for its food and nutritional values throughout the world. In some parts of the world, specially australia and some islands of the west indies, it is known as papaw, or pawpaw, names which are better limited to the very different, mainly wild asimina triloba dunal, belonging to the annonaceae. Carica papaya is a tropical and subtropical plant belongs to caricaceae family, it is a perennial herb having life span of a bout 20 years, eac h and every part of papa ya plant is. Since, each part of papaya tree possesses economic value, it is grown on commercial scale. Carica papaya, commonly called papaya, is a small, frosttender, succulent, broadleaf evergreen tree that bears papaya fruits throughout the year. Aqueous extract of carica papaya leaves exhibits anti.
Plant cysteine proteinases cps from carica papaya kill parasitic and freeliving nematodes in vitro by hydrolysis of the worm cuticle, a mechanism that is different to all commercially available. Review on nutritional, medicinal and pharmacological. Carica papaya a herbal medicine arun kumar srivastava1, vinay kumar singh2 1shri guru goraksha nath degree college, maharajganj, u. The fruit is healthy and delicious and the whole plant parts including fruit, root, bark, peel, seeds and pulp are also known to have medicinal properties. The results in table 2 and 3 showed that carica papaya extracts were minimal toxic and showed antihiv1 activity.
Phytochemical screening of the polar extracts of carica. Papaya helps in the digestion of proteins as it is a rich source of proteolytic enzymes. In this paper, we demonstrate that the aqueousextracted fraction of carica papaya leaf has several in vitro biological effects. The leaves of carica papaya have been used as remedy for various disorders, including cancer. The plant contains many biologically active compounds, whose concentrations differ in the root, fruit, latex, and leaves.
Papaya are also refered to as papaya, pawpaw, malakor, loko, ma kuai thet, du du. It is a herbaceous perennial plant, with a milky latex that can reach 12 m in height. The very juicy flesh is deep yellow or orange to salmoncoloured. It is a medicine for dyspepsia, hyperacidity, dysentery and constipation. Plant biotechnology department, dalat institute of biology, 116 xo viet nghe. Its origin is in the tropics of the americas, perhaps from central america and southern mexico. The medicinal properties of papaya fruit and other parts of the plant are also well known in traditional system of medicine. Carica papaya, the papaya, pawpaw or fruta bomba, is a fruit tree that comes from subhumid tropical regions of south america and central america, especially mexico, where, in the open ground it often reaches up to 8 meters high and 4 meters wide. Nuts and seeds in health and disease prevention, 2011. The fruit is commonly spherical to cylindrical in form, is 75 to 500 mm 3 to 20 inches or even more in length, and sometimes weighs as much as 9 to 11. Department of pharmacognosy, nimra college of pharmacy, vijayawada, andhra pradesh, india email. Cytotoxicity of the carica papaya aerial parts extracts was carried out by using mtt colormetric methods. An overview vijay yogiraj, pradeep kumar goyal, chetan singh chauhan, anju goyal, bhupendra vyas abstract papaya carica papaya linn is commonly called as pawpaw and it belongs to the family caricaceae.
Pdf traditional and medicinal uses of carica papaya. Carica papaya seeds carica papaya, papaya, pawpaw, fruta. The pulp contains vitamins a, c, and e, b complex vitamins, such as pantothenic acid and folate, and minerals, such as magnesium and potassium, as well as food fibers. The parts leaves, fruit ripe and unripe, seeds and latex are used as.
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