- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Caricaceae
- English Names
- Papaw tree
- Papaya tree
- Melon tree
- Natural Habitat
- tropical America
- much cultivated in the Orient and China
- Part(s) Used
- Folia Caricae Papayae, Fructus Caricae Papayae
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- Constituent(s)
- unripe fruit: papain (papayotin)
- sugar
- pectin
- acids; leaf: carposide (glucoside)
- carpaine (alkaloid); seed: caricin (which resembles sinigrin and which on hydrolysis yields a volatile pungent body with an odour like oil of mustard)
- acids
- resin
- Action
- leaf: used as a substitute for Folia Digitalis in heart diseases; seed: vermifuge
- emmenagogue (can cause abortion.). Ripe fruit: wholesome. Papain
- which is prepared from the juice of the unripe fruit
- is digestive and hepatic
- and administered where albuminoid substances pass away undigested and which has much the same effect as trypsin and pepsin
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