CUCUMIS MELO
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OTHER NAMESTamil: Vaelapalam ; Vellari-verai
English: Sweet or Musk-melon ; Melon Telugu: Velipandu Malayalam: Kalingada Kannada: Kalingada Marathi: Khurbuj ; Sakkar Teti Hindi: Khurbuj ; Sakkar Teti Sanskrit: Kalinga ; Kharvuja |
description & usage
Extensively cultivated in gardens as well as in the sandy basins of rivers and found particularly in the North West and in Northern Bengal.
Uses :
Nutritive diet.
How to Use:
The fruit is eaten raw and cooked especially its pulp or juice forms a nutritive, demulcent, diuretic and cooling drink. Pulp mixed with cumin seeds and sugar-candy is a cool diet in hot season. Seeds yield a sweet edible oil which is nutritive and diuretic, useful in painful discharge and suppression of urine. The whole fruit is useful in chronic eczema, Hypoxanthine (Sarcine) is found to exist in this plant.
Parts Used:
Fruit
Taste:
Sweetness
Action:
Nutritive, demulcent, diuretic, cooling drink
Uses :
Nutritive diet.
How to Use:
The fruit is eaten raw and cooked especially its pulp or juice forms a nutritive, demulcent, diuretic and cooling drink. Pulp mixed with cumin seeds and sugar-candy is a cool diet in hot season. Seeds yield a sweet edible oil which is nutritive and diuretic, useful in painful discharge and suppression of urine. The whole fruit is useful in chronic eczema, Hypoxanthine (Sarcine) is found to exist in this plant.
Parts Used:
Fruit
Taste:
Sweetness
Action:
Nutritive, demulcent, diuretic, cooling drink
