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Plant Information

Common Name: BITTER MELON
Scientific Name: Momordica charantia
Alternative Names: Balsam Pear, Karela

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PriceR92.00

Momordica charantia
Momordica charantia

Description

  • Annual
  • Native to tropical Africa and Asia.
  • Important food plant in parts of the tropics.
  • Annual climber.
  • Needs well drained soil in sun.

Culinary Uses

  • Unripe (green) fruits are added to curries or eaten raw, boiled, or fried, after parboiling or soaking in salt water, to remove bitterness.
  • Young leaves and shoots are cooked as a vegetable.

Parts Used

  • The leaves and fruit.

Medicinal Uses. It is said that

  • Internally for colitis and dysentery (fresh juice), intestinal worms, jaundice, and fevers (leaves).
  • A laxative duiretic herb that soothes irritated tissues, lowers fevers, kils parasites and cleanses toxins from the system.
  • Externally for haemorrhoids, chapped skin and burns (fruit).
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