Crescentia cujete (calabash tree) | CABI Compendium - CABI …
Fruit a pepo or calabash, spherical to ovoid-elliptic, 13-20 cm in diameter to 30 cm long, the thin hard-shell smooth, lepidote-punctate; seeds small, thin, wingless, 7-8 mm long and 4-6 mm wide, scattered through the pulp of the fruit.
Traditional Mayan healers have recommend the fruits of the calabash tree (Crescentia cujete) to force menses, birth, after birth, or trigger abortions. The purpose of this research was to directly apply either an aqueous seed extract or raw juice from the fruit pulp directly to isolated uterine tissues from Mus
Crescentia cujete - SpringerLink
2011年1月1日 · The fruit of Crescentia cujete is used as a folk medicine (local name, Dao Tien) in Vietnam as for expectorant, antitussive, laxative and stomachic (Kaneko et al. 1996).
UPLC-MS/MS-based molecular networking and NMR
2020年9月1日 · An untargeted metabolomics approach combining UPLC-MS/MS-based molecular networking with conventional isolation and NMR methods was carried out for the phytochemical profiling of the fruit pulp of Crescentia cujete.
The Nutritive and Anti-Nutritive Compositions of Calabash ( Crescentia ...
2008年9月1日 · The pulp of calabash fruit (crescentia cujete) has been studied for its nutritive and anti-nutritive compositions in both the wet and dry samples.
Flat, heart-shaped and wingless seeds less than 1 cm long are embedded in the soft pulp. Grows in tropical dry forest from Sonora to Chiapas, along the Pacic. slope and the Balsas river basin, with a disjunct area in northern Veracruz and Huasteca region.
2004年1月12日 · Crescentia cujete is frequently cultivated as an ornamen-tal. The ripe fruits, once dry and clean inside, are used as con-tainers to hold water. When the dry, clean fruits are cut in half, they have a variety of domestic uses, especially as containers to store salt and tortillas.
Crescentia cujete L. (Bignoniaceae) | SpringerLink
2020年12月6日 · In the Antilles (and West Africa as well), the fruit pulp, macerated in water, is considered purifying, cooling, and a febrifuge (breaks fever); it is applied to the head for headaches and burns. The fruit pulp roasted in ashes is used for dropsy (swelling of the body).
In vitro acaricidal activity of Crescentia cujete L. fruit pulp …
Crescentia cujete is a Bignoniaceae and it is characteristic of tropical climates. Its most distinctive feature is its fruit, which is spherical and gourd-like, with a hard woody shell and gelatinous pulp.
Crescentia cujete - TRAMIL
The hydroalcoholic extract (95%) from the fruit pulp did not show antibacterial activity in vitro against Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Aspergillus niger or Candida albicans.