Medicinal Uses of Carica Papaya

Authors: Anitha B, Raghu N, Gopenath TS, Karthikeyan M, Gnanasekaran A, Chandrashekrappa GK and Basalingappa KM*

DOI: 10.23880/jonam-16000144

Volume 2, Issue 6

Abstract

Medicinal plants have been used for various diseases traditionally in many countries, because of its advantages like easyavailability, effective and economical in therapeutics. Carica papaya, also called as pawpaw is traditionally cultivated forfruit. Carica papaya belonging to the genus Carica. It contains the enzyme papain, chymopapain which is biologically

active and has medicinal and nutritional values. All parts of the plant like leaves, fruits, seeds, flowers and roots can beused by humans as food and medicinal purposes. This plant has therapeutic uses like anti-amoebic, anti-microbial, antifertility activity, anti-ulcerogenic, anti-fungal, antitumor, hypolipidaemic and employ in wound -healing activity, freeradical scavenging activity, diuretic activity, uterotonic activity. In this review we have discussed details about papayaplant parts and its uses.

Keywords:

Carica Papaya; Medicinal; Herb; Fruit

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