Lesson 6.11.2 PAWPAW – FOOD VALUE

  

FOOD FOREST COURSE AGRO-ECONOMY

Lesson 6.11.2 PAWPAW – FOOD VALUE

 

Food value

As mentioned before, pawpaw can be both a fruit and a vegetable. Eating raw green pawpaw is most beneficial for us as an aid in digestion as it contains papain, an enzyme that aids in breaking down protein.  Papain in its most concentrated form is found in the skin of the green pawpaw and the latex that oozes out from a broken branch of the tree or the white sap that comes from picking the green fruit.  The concentration of papain diminishes greatly with the ripened pawpaw but serving the ripe fruit with and between meals is good for maintaining our health and cancel out some of our dietary sins!  The green pawpaw can also be used as a cooked vegetable in stews, and they are also nice stuffed and baked in an oven.

Medicinal value

Absolutely all parts of the pawpaw tree have medicinal values, but it is not in the scope of this book to extol them all.  However, I will mention some vital points that I have found useful. The dried seed of the ripe pawpaw can be put through a food processor and ground to a powder.  It can then be sprinkled onto our food and be used to expel worms as we eat our daily meals.  This is also good for worming livestock.  I regularly sprinkle on some dried, ground up pawpaw seed onto their daily grain ration and they don’t even notice it.

 

Fresh leaves are also used in some tropical countries to kill and expel worms.  When there is no pawpaw seed available, I dry some pawpaw leaves and crumble some into my livestock feed ration.  In India, the latex is used as a vermifuge (a drug for extracting worms from the intestinal tract).  One tablespoon of latex is mixed with a tablespoon of honey into four tablespoons of hot water and taken before meals.  Two hours after a meal, a dose of 50 ml of castor oil is taken in 300 ml of warm milk.  This is kept up for three days.

Anyone interested in finding out more on pawpaw’s curative properties should get a hold of Harald W. Tietze’s book of ‘Papaya, The Medicine Tree’. This little booklet is a mine of information and well worth chasing up.

Text from the roots, Elisabeth Ferkonia (Aus.) PDC studied with Bill Mollison.

 

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