What Are the Medicinal Uses of Pawpaw Leaves?

Papaya leaf, Chinese medicine name. It is a leaf of the papaya Carica papaya L. It is cultivated in Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, and Yunnan. With detoxification, bone-setting effect. Commonly used for sore swelling and poison, fractures.

Chinese scientific name: Papaya leaf
boundary: Plant kingdom
door: Angiosperm
Tsuna: Dicotyledoneae
Head: Membranous placenta
Branch: Papaya

Genus: Papaya
Species: papaya
distribution area: Cultivated in Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places
Harvest time: All year round
Amount: Topical: Moderate
Poisonous: Non-toxic

Papaya leaf medicated part

leaf.

Papaya leaf

Sweet and flat.

Papaya Leaf Return

Spleen Meridian.

Papaya leaf effect

Detoxify and bones.

Indications of papaya leaf

Sores, swellings, and fractures.

Papaya leaf related compatibility

Treatment of fractures: 60g fresh papaya flowers, roots and leaves, 5 crabs. Totally smashed the affected area. ("Guangxi Compendium of Materia Medica")

Papaya leaf usage dosage

Topical: Moderate, fresh product.

Papaya leaf collection and processing

Can be harvested all year round and used fresh.

Morphological characteristics of papaya leaf

Evergreen soft wood small trees, 8-10 meters tall, with latex; stems not branched or sometimes branched at lesions, with spirally arranged stipule marks. The leaves are large, connate on the apex of the stem, nearly shield-shaped, up to 60 cm in diameter, usually 5-9 deeply lobed, and each lobed is pinnately divided; the petiole is hollow, up to 60-100 cm long. Flowers are unisexual or bisexual, and some varieties occasionally produce bisexual or female flowers on male plants and bear fruit, and sometimes a few male flowers appear on female plants. The plants are male, female and amphoteric. Male flowers: arranged in panicles, up to 1 meter long, drooping; flowers sessile; sepals base commissure; corolla milky yellow, crown tube thinly tubular, 1.6-2.5 cm long, corolla lobes 5, lanceolate, about 1.8 cm long , 4.5 mm wide; stamens 10, 5 long and 5 short, few filaments short, long filaments white, white tomentose; ovary degenerate. Female flowers: solitary or composed of several umbria inflorescences, inserted into the axils of the leaves, with short stalks or nearly sessile, sepals 5, approximately 1 cm long, connate below the middle; corolla lobes 5, separated, milky yellow or yellow-white , Oblong or lanceolate, 5-6.2 cm long, 1.2-2 cm wide; ovary superior, ovoid, sessile, style 5, stigma lobed, near fringed. Bisexual flowers: 5 stamens, inserted on a very short corolla tube near the base of the ovary, or 10 on the longer corolla tube, arranged in 2 rounds, crown tube length 1.9-2.5 cm, corolla lobes Oval, about 2.8 cm long and 9 mm wide. Ovary is smaller than female ovary. Berry fleshy, orange-yellow or yellow when mature, oblong, obovate-oblong, pear-shaped or nearly-spherical, 10-30 cm or longer, soft and juicy flesh, sweet and sweet; most seeds, ovoid, mature When black, fleshy seed coat, wooden seed coat, wrinkled. Flowering and fruiting season all year round.