why the papaya can be a medicine?
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because in addition to its other benefits it is best for healing\n\nHealing \nHealing speeds up with pieces of papaya laid on wounds and surgical incision. A large number of people believe that pregnant women should avoid papaya as it may cause a miscarriage. Scientifically speaking there is no evidence to support these beliefs. \n\nNutritive value of 100 gms of papaya \n\nRipe papaya ---------------------Green papaya \n_____________________________________\nProtein 0.6 gms -----------------Protein 0.7 gms \nFat 0.1 gm ----------------------Fats 0.2 gms \nMinerals  0.5 gm ----------------Minerals 0.5 gms \nFibre  0.8 gm -------------------Fibre 0.9 gms \nCarbohydrates  7.2 gms ----------Carbohydrates 5.7 gms \nEnergy  32 kcal -----------------Energy 27 gms \nTotal carotene 2,740 µgs --------Carotene 0 \nBeta carotene 880 µgs -----------Beta carotene 0 \nVitamin C 57 mgs ----------------Vitamin C 12 mgs \nSodium 6.0 mgs ------------------Sodium 23.0 mgs \nPotassium  69 mgs ---------------potassium 216 mgs \nIron 0.5 mg--------------------- Iron 0.9 mgs \n\n\n\nVitamins \nPapaya when consumed regularly will ensure a good supply of vitamin A and C. Both are essential for good health. The common preventable blindness in Indian children is due to vitamin A deficiency. Eating papaya helps to prevent this kind of blindness. \n\nBeta-Carotene \nPapaya is a good source of beta-carotene, which helps to prevent damage by free radical, which might other wise lead to some forms of cancer. \n\nEnzymes \nDifferent types of enzymes are present in papaya. Papain, a substance present in papaya is an excellent aid to digestion. It is an enzyme, which helps to digest the protein in food. Papaya has the property of tenderizing meat. This knowledge is been put to use in our country by cooking meat with raw papaya to make it tender and digestible. The unripe fruit is a rich source of papain, which is vegetable pepsin and is capable of digesting protein in acid, alkaline or neutral medium. Papain also exhibits pain relieving properties and the US food and drug administration (FDA) has approved its medicinal use to ease the discomfort of slipped discs (prolapsed inter vertebral disc). This is used for injection into herniated inter vertebral lumbar discs to relieve pain caused by pressure on nerves. \n\nThe celiac disease patients, who cannot digest the wheat protein gliandin, can tolerate it if it is treated with crude papain. Papaya can be prescribed for dyspeptic patients as the papain may help in the digestion of proteins. It is an ideal food for invalids because the flesh is easy to chew and swallow. \n\nHealing \nHealing speeds up with pieces of papaya laid on wounds and surgical incision. A large number of people believe that pregnant women should avoid papaya as it may cause a miscarriage. Scientifically speaking there is no evidence to support these beliefs. \n\n Papaya seeds even though have a deworming action, is not advisable to consume. A toxic substance called carpine is present in traces in black seeds of papaya. Carpine in large quantities is said to lower the pulse rate and depress the nervous system. This substance is only found in papaya seed and that too in very small quantity. The fleshy part of the fruit is completely free from this toxic substance. Hence, once the seeds are removed the delicious fruit can be safely eaten. \nThis low calorie, nutritive, "low budget" all season fruit must be included in your regular diet for a healthy life.\nNutritive value of 100 gms of papaya
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no, not yet but everyday there are advancements in possible treatments and medical experts believe that there are prevenative measures that can be taken to help a person from the possibility of getting in the future.  just like there are preventatives for diabetes and some cancers.  same thing.
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Green tea is very useful for medicinal purpose.\nThere are just a few medical conditions in which drinking green tea is reputed to be helpful: \n.cancer \n.rheumatoid arthritis \n.high cholesterol levels \n.cariovascular disease \n.infection \n.impaired immune function
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Many parts of plants are used to make medicines.  It's usually because that plant evolved to deal with disease or hazardous conditions.
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it's used to treat certain bacterial infections.  It's called an antibiotic
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Generally speaking they are used to treat almost all of the non-surgical problems that modern medicine treats.\n\nIn some diseases, it can excel modern medicine in RESULTS.\n\nIts much cheaper and less "toxic" to the cells.\n\nIts more useful in the degenerative diseases of modern times.\n\n\nThe art of treating with ayurvedic medicines dates back thousands of years so is therefore a more established art.
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I believe that this is a poisonous plant, however, this plant, as many others, can be used to treat illnesses.
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It can activate the flow of energy along meridian lines.\n\nthere are many other therapies that also utilise these energy paths, or meridians, without breaking the skin, that are worth considering too
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can not find as such. but the pau darco tree might be called that by some, it can be used to treat cancer. plus it has many other uses
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There are surely many cures in nature, but no way is there a cure for everything.\n\nMany herbal medicines are being researched by chemists and biologists for medicinal uses.  And often, medical science moves forward by improving upon nature.\n\nFor instance, salicylic acid, a derivative from the bark of the willow tree, has many medicinal uses--such as treating acne and dandruff.  But the most popular medicine derived from it came when scientists acetylated the molecule, creating acetylsalicylic acid--what you would call aspirin.  (Unfortunately, they went on to do the same thing with morphine--a natural constituent of the opium poppy, and ended up creating heroin!)
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Papaya and lychee, baby !!
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it is called the "buah merah", the indonesian for "red fruit". it was officially invented as the medicine for AIDS.\nthe buah merah is found in the Papua wilderness. the people in Papua ate it to increase their immune system in the wild and so they can struggle. the latest invention in Beijing, China, two weeks ago found that buah merah can not only cure AIDS but also cancers.
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Plants are important to us bc they provide the air we need to breathe, we can use them as herbs for healing injuries or health (some are used in medication), we use them for our skin like when its in dermatalogy products & whatnot, & not to mention they are great for making tea & pretty to have around.
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In the Western world, kava is used as a herbal remedy to ease the symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression. \n\nOn 15 February 2006, the Fiji Times and Fiji Live both reported that researchers at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and the Laboratoire de Biologie Moleculaire du Cancer in Luxembourg had discovered kava was effective in the treatment of ovarian cancer and leukaemia. Kava compounds inhibited the activation of a nuclear factor that led to the growth of cancer cells. Aberdeen University had published its findings in the journal, The South Pacific Journal of Natural Science, that kava methanol extracts had been shown to kill leukaemia and ovarian cancer cells in test tubes. The kava compounds were shown to work selectively, passing healthy cells by and targeting only cancerous cells. \n\nFiji Kava Council Chairman Ratu Josateki Nawalowalo welcomed the findings, saying that they would boost the kava industry. For his part, Agriculture Minister Ilaitia Tuisese called on the researchers to help persuade members of European Union to lift their ban on kava imports.
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A promising anti-cancer substance has been found in a Borneo shrub by researchers for an Australian pharmaceutical firm, while a chemical found in latex produced by a tree appears to be effective against the replication of HIV.\n422 new plant species had been discovered in Borneo - shared by Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei - in the last 25 years and many others were believed to be there which could have medicinal applications.\nBut all these promising discoveries could eventually be lost if the disappearing rainforests of the heart of Borneo are not adequately protected.\nMore forest destruction could well deny science the opportunity to discover and develop further potential sources of life-saving medication.
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It's the science of treating medical conditions with the use of drugs.  (As opposed to surgery or psychotherapy or physical therapy...)
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I don’t know in the specific but certainly it is useless for the purpose you think.\nIt’s not a stimulating drug! \nYou’re not a man that need more blood flood in the penis!\nIt increases the blood circulation in general and in my opinion, it should be a bigger risk during the female period! \nWhy should a woman take Viagra then?