An official website of the United States government.

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • Deprecated function: stripos(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($haystack) of type string is deprecated in Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\ActiveLinkResponseFilter->onResponse() (line 85 of core/lib/Drupal/Core/EventSubscriber/ActiveLinkResponseFilter.php).
  • Deprecated function: stripos(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($haystack) of type string is deprecated in Drupal\Core\EventSubscriber\RssResponseRelativeUrlFilter->onResponse() (line 24 of core/lib/Drupal/Core/EventSubscriber/RssResponseRelativeUrlFilter.php).
  1. Home
  2. Carica papaya

Carica papaya

Common Name
Katela gantung; Papaya; Chich Put; Kavunagaci; Mapaza; Wan Shou Kuo; Gandul; Papaye; Mu Kua; Papailler; Fan Kua; Papaw; Pawpaw; Betik petik; Papayer; Pawpaw Tree; Pepol; Tinti; Kepaya; Lechoso; Kates; Kuntaia; Lohong Si Phle

Activities

Download these results as:
CSV
EXCEL
PDF
Uses for this plant.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity Country/Region Reference
Diuretic Elsewhere *
Diuretic Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Dysentery Panama Gupta, M.P., et al. 1979. Ethnopharmacognostic observations on Panamanian medicinal plants. Part I. Quarterly journal of crude drug research 17(3-4):115-130.
Dysentery Japan *
Dyspepsia Mexico Standley, Paul C. Trees and shrubs of Mexico. Contributions U.S. National Herbarium, vol. 23. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
Dyspepsia Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Dysuria Java *
Ecbolic Elsewhere *
Elephantiasis Elsewhere *
Emmenagogue Elsewhere *
Emmenagogue Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Emmenagogue Turkey Steinmetz, E.F. 1957. codex Vegetabilis. Published by the author, Amsterdam.
Enteritis Elsewhere *
Epithelioma St Vincent Hartwell, J.L. 1967-71. Plants used against cancer. A survey. Lloydia 30-34.
Expectorant Elsewhere ANON. 1978. List of Plants. Kyoto Herbal Garden, Parmacognostic Research Lab., Central Research Division, Takeda Chem. Industries, Ltd., Ichijoji, Sakyoku, Kyoto, Japan.
Fever Java *
Fever Mexico Martinez, Maximino. 1969. Las Plantas Medinales de Mexico.
Flu Trinidad *
Flu Trinidad Wong, W. 1976. Some folk medicinal plants from Trinidad. Economic Botany 30(2): 103-142.
Freckle Elsewhere *