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CLASSIFICATION

ORDER	: Cucurbitales
FAMILY	: Curcubitaceae
GENUS	: Cucumis
SPECIES	: maderaspatanus
BOTANICAL NAME	: Cucumis maderaspatanus L.
SYNONYMS	: ---
COMMON NAME	: Madras pea pumpkin
TAMIL NAME	: Ayileyam
HINDI NAME	: Bilari

PLANT DESCRIPTION

HABIT :  Prostrate or climbing, scabridly hairy, monoecious annual herbs.

LEAVES :  Entire or shallowly 35 angled or lobed, ovate-triangular, seldom subreniform.

FLOWERS :  Pale to bright-yellow, male and female in same axil, male pedicellate, female sessile.

FRUIT :  Berries, spherical, glabrous, smooth. Seeds grey or light black, ovoid-oblong, compressed, somewhat wrinkled, scrobiculate.

FLOWERING AND FRUITING TIME :  July-October

MEDICINAL USES

It is often used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, fractures, and back or leg pain.

An adverse reaction to Cervus and cucumis polypeptide injection has been reported.

A decoction of young shoots and leaves is used as an aperient, especially for children, and is also taken to treat vertigo and biliousness

The leaf-sap is used as a wound-dressing. A poultice of the leaves is used in the treatment of burns

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