Improve Your Health With Papaya and Bengal Quince

By Rajeev Sharma

Nature has provided mankind with a gamut of fruits, vegetables, dairy products and other sources to maintain a healthy lifestyle. These natural sources of food are rich in vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates and other essential nutrients. Moreover, they have numerous unexplored healing powers. Through this series, we have made a sincere attempt to unfold the various benefits of these foods. You will find a cure for every big or small disease in this invaluable series, and will discover what treasure nature holds.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Diamond Books
• Release date: Aug 25, 2021
• ISBN: 9788128822322

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PAPAYA - GENERAL FACTS

Papaya (Carica Papaya) originates from tropical American countries. Today Papaya is cultivated in most tropical countries around the world. The tree grows upright from three to eight metres high and under special circumstances even up to ten metres high. Papaya trees normally have no branches, with the leaves and fruit growing directly from the trunk that can have a diameter of up to 20 cm. Only in rare cases, when the trunk is damaged no branches form. Papaya grows very fast and has a soft wood. The tropical plant cannot stand frost and even temperatures close to zero can kill.

The relatives of Papaya

There are around 30 varieties of Papaya with most of them having no commercial or medicinal value. The best-known relatives of Papaya are babaco (carica pentagona), the mountain Papaya (carica pubenscens) and Chamburo (carica stipulata).

The Papaya with the Latin name carica Papaya is called Pawpaw in Australia and New Zealand. The Pawpaw in North America with the Latin name (asimina tribola) is in no way related to the Papaya. The only thing both plants have in common is the common name and that both are used as a medicinal plant.

Pawpaw leaves (asimina tribola) and young shoots are used like the leaves, young shoots and unripe fruit of the Papaya (carica Papaya) as a medicine against cancer and parasites.

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MEDICINAL

INGREDIETS OF PAPAYA

Protein - the digestibility is important

The following are the essential amino acids:

Isoleucine. Needed for growth, intelligence development and nitrogen balance within the body. Also assists with synthesising other non-essential amino acids.

Leucine. Helps to increase muscular energy levels and stimulate brain function.

Lysine. Used for forming blood antibodies, improves the circulatory system and promotes cell growth.

Methionine. Vital for metabolising fats and lipids that maintain a healthy liver. Also helps calm the nerves.

Phenylalanine. Used by the thyroid for the production of thyroxin that in turn governs metabolic rate.

Threonine. Improves competence of the intestines and thus aids digestion.

Tryptophane. Enhances the use of B group vitamins, improves nerve fibres. This in its turn contributes to emotional stability and calmness.

Valine. Assists with the co-ordination of the muscular system as well as contributing to improved mental capacity.

Arginine. Important for the production of (male) seminal fluid. Assists in keeping the blood clean. Papain breaks down protein and converts into arginine (Whitman Ray)

Histidine. Improves nerve relays, especially in the hearing organs. Has even been used as a remedy for deafness.

Another group of amino acids are termed as non-essential.

Non-essential means that if not present in the daily diet, they can be synthesised by the body; it does not mean that the body has no need of them.

Alanine. Strengthens the walls of cells.

Aspartic acid. Helps with the transformation of carbohydrates into energy.

Cystine. Aids with pancreatic health and thus stabilises blood sugar etc. May help towards alleviating food allergies.

Glutamic acid. Along with glucose it fuels the brain cells. Can reduce the craving for alcohol and also stabilise mental health.

Glycine. Promoter of energy.

Proline. A precursor of glutamic acid.

Serine. Helps with the formation of the fatty sheath surrounding nerve fibres.

Tyrosine. May slow the ageing of cells and suppresses hunger. Involved in the colouration of hair and skin, and indeed helps with sunburn protection.

Can Papain be used for diet sins?

Papaya can help to balance diet sins. After a meal you should have Papaya as a dessert or a cup of Papaya tea to help the digestion (or indigestion that one feels long after a heavy meal). Mucous in the intestines that negatively influence our digestion can be reduced and even intestinal parasites digested. For worm digestion, the Papaya should be consumed together with the seeds. Papain as the strongest protein - digesting super enzyme, can digest 35 times its own weight in meat. Papain is active in the digestive system in sour, alkaline or neutral suroundings.

Intestinal mucous built up in the intestine can be the cause of low energy, poor digestion and other illnesses. Partly digested