Spices & Medicinal herbs

HERBS	Angelica :: Aloe Vera :: Basil :: Chamomile :: Chives :: Coriander :: Dill :: Lemon Balm :: Musli :: Oregano :: Stevia
SPICES	Ajwain :: Allspice :: Bay Leaf :: Black Cardamon :: Green Cardamon :: Cinnamon :: Cloves :: Cumin :: Cayenne Pepper
VEGETABLES	Amaranth :: Breadfruit :: Brocolli :: Cauliflower :: Cucumber :: Drumstick :: Hijiki :: Garlic

Herbs Classifical of Herbs Herbs by Common Name Herbs by Property List of Herbs Alfalfa Allspice Aloe Vera Angelica Anise Annatto Arugula Agrimony Apple mint Asafoetida Avens Barberry Basil Bistort Boneset Bog Labrador Tea Borage Boldo Candle nut Capsicum Coriander Caraway Calamus Chamomile Chickweed Chives Cleavers Dill Echinacea Flax Fennel Lavender Kali Musli Lemon Balm Musli Oregano Stevia Spices Vegetables

Herb : Papaya

(Botanical name: Carica papaya)

Classification

• Kingdom- Plantae
• (Unranked)- Angiosperms
• (Unranked)- Eudicots
• (Unranked)- Rosids
• Order- Brassicales
• Family- Caricaceae
• Genus- Carica
• Species- C.papaya

History

Papaya is a fruit of the plant carica papaya from the family of carica. It is native of tropics of Americas and varieties can be seen throughout the America.

Papaya is an evergreen fast growing shrub but a short lived plant in its best environment.

Plant Description

The fast growing tree can reach upto 25 feet with a straight trunk. The leaves are dark green and glabrous to 2 feet across that are deeply palmately 7 lobed with lobes pinnately lobed.

Flowers are aromatic drooping axillary panicles to 80cm long with a 5-toothed green calyx and 5-toothed to yellow corolla with 10 stamens.

The fruit is big yellow- green coloured, oblong of about 7.5 cm long, 2.5-5 cm thick sweet, juicy and contains numerous pepper like seeds.

Cultivation

Basically it is cultivated in tropical areas and throughout the Americas but today found in other parts of world like Brazil, India, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia.

The temperature required by papaya range from warm temperate dry to moist through tropical very dry to wet forest life zones.

It requires annual precipitation of 6.4 to 42.9 dm with an annual temperature of 16.2 to 26.6° C and pH of 4.3 to 8.0.

It should be protected from frost being a tropical plant, frost may kill this plant.

Parts Used

Fruit, seeds, leaves and bark are used.

Constituents

Papaya's contains carbohydrates, fat, protein, vitamin A, beta-carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, vitamin C, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and sodium.

Uses

• The ripe orange coloured fruit is eaten raw without seeds and skin and the unripe fruit is generally used in cooking.
• The unripe papaya can be cooked with vegetables and added to salads, curries and stews.
• Papaya is also used in making of candies and jellies.
• The tree and green papaya contains a rich enzyme called papain which used as tropical application to treat burns, wounds, cuts and rashes.
• A papain ointment is generally made from fermented papaya flesh which is applied as gel on the wounds and cuts.
• Green papaya is widely used as an oral contraceptive which induces abortion.
• It has been found that papaya seeds have contraceptive effects in adult male langur monkeys and human adults as well.
• The black seeds are sometimes used as a substitute of black pepper which is equally edible and spicy in taste.

Names

• BURMESE: Thimbaw.
• CHINESE: Fan mu gua
• DANISH: Melontræ, Papaya.
• DUTCH: Meloenboom
• ENGLISH: Pawpaw, Papaya
• FRENCH: Papaye, Papayer.
• GERMAN: Melonenbaum, Papaya, Papayabaum
• HINDI: Papiitaa
• JAPANESE : Papaiya, Papaya, Popoo
• KHMER: Ihong, Doeum lahong
• LAOTIAN: Houng.
• KOREAN: Pa pa ya
• MALAY: Betek, Betik, Gedang (Indonesia), Kates (Indonesian), Ketalah, Papaya (Indonesia).
• POLISH: Melonowiec wlasciwy (papaja) / Papaja.
• PORTUGUESE: Mamao (Brazil).
• RUSSIAN: Papaia
• SPANISH: Mamón, Melón zapote, Papaya, Papayero, Papayo
• TAGALOG: Kapaya, Lapaya, Papaya
• TAMIL: Pappali.
• THAI: Loko, Malako, Malakor, Ma kuai thet, Sa kui se
• URDU: Papiitaa
• VIETNAMESE: Dudu.