KARAVELLA

1. Botanical name : Momordica charantia Linn.
2. Family : Cucurbitaceae
3. Tamil : Pagarkai, Pavakkai.
4. Hindi : Karela
5. Malayalam : Pavakkai
6. English : Bitter gourd
7. Habit : A tropical, tendril-bearing annual, growing up to 5m high with deeply lobed leaves. It is a monoecious plant producing yellow, solitary flowers and distinct warty, oblong, bitter-fleshed fruit that turns orange and splits to reveal red-coated seeds at maturity.
8. Distribution : Primarily widely distributed across tropical and subtropical regions worldwide
9. Useful part : Leaves, Fruit
10. Rasa Panchaka
    1. Rasa : Tikta, Katu
    1. Guna : Laghu, Ruksha
    1. Veerya : Sheeta
    1. Vipaka : Katu
11. Karma : Kapha pitta hara, deepana, bhedana.
12. Indications : Arochaka, vrana, krimi, swasa, kasa, pandu, prameha, kushta.
13. Dose : Juice 10-20ml

Formulations : Karavellaka swarasa, Aragwadhadi kashaya.

WHOLE PLANT

LEAF & FLOWER

FRUIT