Plant |
Family | Gourd Family / Cucumber Family, cucurbits (Cucurbitaceae) |
English |
Creeping-cucumber, Guadeloupe cucumber |
Latin |
Melothria pendula L., Melothria fluminensis Gardner, Melothria pendula |
Plantparts | Fruit, Unspecified |
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Ungrouped Diseases & Uses |
Acid indigestion, Acidity, acidity of the stomach, Anchylostomiasis, Ancylostomiasis, Ankylostomes, Ankylostomiasis, Anticonvulsant, Anti-edemic, Anti-epileptic, aperient, catharic, Cathartic, constipation, convulsion, Convulsions, Costive, Costiveness, dropsy, Dyschezia, Dyssynergic defaecation, Edema, Elephantiasis, Epilepsy, fluid accumulation, Hookworm disease, Hydropsy, laxative, Lymphatic Filariasis, movements of the bowel, oedema, purgative |
Cancer |
Anti-carcinogenic, anticarcinogenig, Anticarcinomic, antineoplastic, Anti-tumor, Anti-tumor activity, Neoplasm, tumor, tumor-inhibiting, Tumor inhibition, tumor-reducing, Tumors, Tumour, Tumour inhibition |
Women's diseases |
Diseases of uterus, Leucorrhea, Leucorrhoea, Leukorrhea, menstrual complaints, menstrual disorder, menstrual disorders, Womb Ailments |
Local (Geographical) use |
Phytomedical use in Brazil, Phytomedical use in the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana) |
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