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Papaya Leaf

The papaya tree is found growing to a height of up to 25 feet in tropical America. The palm-like trunks have soft wood and sometimes divide into several erect stems, each with a head of large, palmately lobed leaves that are nearly orbicular in outline. The lobes themselves are innately lobed. The hollow petioles are two feet long or more. Male and female flowers are usually on separate trees: slender racemes of funnel-shaped, yellow male flowers become up to 3 feet long; the female flowers have five yellow, twisted petals and grow single or in sparse corymbs. The fruit is a large, oblong or nearly spherical, fleshy berry with a yellow or orange rind like a gourd. It may be from 3 to 20 inches long and weigh up to 12 pounds or more

	2 oz	4 oz	8 oz	1 lb
Papaya Leaf c/s	$2.00	$3.00	$4.75	$7.98
Papaya Leaf Powder	$2.00	$3.15	$5.63	$9.45

Properties/Uses - Digestive, stomachic, vermifuge, vulnerary. Papaya is probably best known for its ability to aid digestion. The juice has also been used to remove freckles, and internally it acts as an effective vermifuge. Papaya leaves are sometimes used to dress festering wounds. The leaves are used as a substitute for soap. It is a most valuable agent in catarrh of the stomach and in the digestive failure accompanying continued fevers. It stimulates the stomach in the beginning of convalescence, and in some cases increases the appetite and promotes absorption of the digested pabulum. It is serviceable in the digestive disorders of pregnancy, stimulating appropriation and assimilation. In those cases where the digestion is seriously interfered with during the last three months of pregnancy, it being almost impossible, because of the great pain induced, for the patient to take any food into the stomach, the condition will be entirely relieved by this agent within a few days, the patient being enabled to eat large meals of meat without discomfort and with satisfaction

Botanical Name - Carica papaya

Part Used - Leaf

Common Names/Synonyms - Custard apple, melon tree, pawpaw

Cautions - No side effects or contraindications with normal use.

Papaya Leaf in larger sizes


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