Abstract

A DRUG REVIEW ON CARICA PAPAYA

Riya Roy* and B. Swapna

ABSTRACT

The Papaya, papaw, or paw paw is the plant Carica papaya Linn and it belongs to the family Caricaceae. Papaya is commonly known for its food and nutritional values throughout the world. Its origin is in the tropics of the Americas, perhaps from Central America and southern Mexico. The properties of papaya fruit and other parts of the plant are also well known in traditional system of medicine. During the last few decades considerable progress has been achieved regarding the biological activity and medicinal application of papaya and now it is considered as valuable nutraceutical fruit plant. Papaya possess excellent medicinal properties for treatment of different ailments.[1] The different parts of the Carica papaya plant including leaves, seeds, latex and fruit exhibited to have medicinal value. The latex from unripe papaya fruit contain enzymes papain and chymopapain. This review focuses on different properties of papaya as a multi-faceted plant.

Keywords: Papaya, Eranda karkati, Diabetes, Wound healing.