Submitted by:

Maureen A. Camalao
(III-Galileo)

Submitted to:
Mrs. Analiza Barcarse
(Teacher)
 METHODOLOGY

Ingredients:
1. Dried Papaya Leaves
2. Honey

Procedure:
1. Get some dried papaya leaves
2. Grind it, and mixed with honey.
3. After mixing it, drink it because
this is perfect cure to cough and
fever.
4. See if it is effect to your illness.
5. If yes, continuously do it. For
the best result.

*This product is very useful because

it’s not expensive and it can help to our
generation.
 RELATED LITERATURE
The papaya plant is a small tree, Carica papaya L. (family Caricaceae),
native to tropical America but found in tropical areas throughout the world. Its
trunk, which is nonwoody and hollow, produces large, deeply lobed leaves and
smooth-skinned cantaloupe-like fruits or melons directly on its surface without
intervening branches.

When ripe, the fruits are a very desirable food. Shallow cuts made on the
surface of fully grown but unripe fruits cause them to exude a milky sap or
latex that after collection and drying is known as crude papain. In addition to
the large quantities produced by incising the fruit, about 2 percent of papain is
found in papaya leaves.Papain, or vegetable pepsin as it is sometimes called, is
a mixture of proteolytic enzymes with a fairly broad spectrum of activity; it
hydrolyzes not only proteins but small peptides, amides, and some esters as
well. Other components of the crude enzyme mixture hydrolyze both
carbohydrates and fats.This wide range of activity accounts for the use of
papain in folk medicine for digestive disturbances of all kinds but particularly
for those associated with protein-rich foods. The enzyme and the papaya leaves
are also employed as a vermifuge (expels intestinal worms), especially for
tapeworms. As a digestive aid, papaya tablets containing between 10 and 50 mg
of papain are commercially available.Papain, contained in the plant's whitish
juice, or latex, is an enzyme that breaks up protein. In its pure form, it can
"digest" up to 35 times its own weight in lean meat, and so it is in great demand
as a meat tenderizer.

Medically, it is prescribed for people who have difficulty digesting

protein and is used to break up blood clots after surgery. In addition, doctors
and scientists have been studying the use of a sister enzyme, chymopapain, to
shrink ruptured or slipped spinal discs.A certain amount of papain is contained
in all of the plant's juices, but the richest supply is in the leaves and in the skin
of the unripe fruit.Only the latex from the unripe fruit is pure enough to make
harvesting worthwhile, however, and gathering it is a labor-intensive
process.Although groves of wild papaya dot the landscapes of southern Mexico
and Central America, where the plant probably originated, and cultivated
forests are found in nearly every tropical area of the world, only in a few places
- principally in Zaire in central Africa - is the latex gathered.Face creams,
lotions, cleansers, and so on are often formulated with papain in the belief that
the enzyme will exert "a digestive effect on freckles and other sun blemishes"
while cleansing the pores of makeup and providing a general "softening" effect.
 However, the use of papain most familiar to every housewife is as a meat
tenderizer. The enzyme mixed with salt as an activator and a carbohydrate
dispersing agent is sold in every supermarket. When shaken on tough meat
before cooking, especially beef, it acts as an effective tenderizer by
predigesting to some degree the fibrous animal protein.Various commercial
applications of papain such as chill-proofing beer and clarifying fruit juices are
interesting but beyond the scope of this discussion.Those who drink a tea
prepared from papaya leaves as a digestive aid should be aware that (according
to French) the leaves should first have been subjected to a fermentation process
similar to that used for black tea. This is said to facilitate extraction of the
active principles by boiling water and to brew a much richer beverage than is
obtained with ordinary dried papaya leaves.

Uses of Papaya leaves

Papaya's main medicinal use is as a digestive agent. The leaves and fruit
can both be used to support sound digestion (the unripe fruit is especially
effective). The latex from the trunk of the tree is also applied externally to
speed the healing of wounds, ulcers, boils, warts, and cancerous tumors. The
seeds gently expel worms.

The latex has a similar but more violent effect. The flowers may be taken
in an infusion to induce menstruation. A decoction of the ripe fruit is helpful
for treating persistent diarrhea and dysentery in children. The ripe fruit is
mildly laxative.The leaves are used to dress wounds.

Scientific Name:
*Carica papaya
Dried papaya
leaves fully
grinded and
mixed with
honey is a
perfect cure to
cough and fever