THE CUBA REVIEW 



29 



HORTICULTURAL MATTERS 



MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF THE PAPAW 



The following interesting information is 

 taken from the Tropical Agriculturist for 

 February 1913. "The milky juice of the 

 unripe fruit of the Papaw tree is admitted 

 by highly medical authorities to be an ef- 

 ficient vermifuge, and a similar property 

 is possessed by the seeds, which have a 

 pleasant flavor resembling that of cress. 

 The juice is also a good cosmetic, which 

 is used for the removal of freckles. But 

 the most remarkable thing connected with 

 the Papaw tree is the property possessed 

 by the milky juice of the unripe fruit of 

 separating the fibres of flesh and making 

 it tender. The late L. A. Bernays, who 

 was undoubtedly a reliable authority on 

 the properties of plants and fruits, says, 

 in his valuable work on 'The Cultural In- 

 dustries of Queensland,' that this property 

 is not confined to the juice of the fruit, 

 but the very exhalations of the tree are 

 said to possess it ; and of this fact the 

 Brazilian butchers take advantage to make 

 their toughest meat saleable. This is ac- 

 . omplished by suspending the newly-killed 



"at in the tree, or by wrapping it in the 

 1 ves. So powerful is this softening ac- 

 tion of the juice that it must be used with 

 caution, the meat will drop to pieces, which 

 makes it more unpalatable than if left in 

 its original condition of toughness. 



"Some interesting experiments were 

 made some years ago upon this subject at 

 the Royal Agricultural Museum, Berlin. 

 A portion of the juice was dissolved in 

 three times its weight of water, and this 

 was placed with 15 lbs. of quite fresh, lean 

 beef in one piece in distilled water, and 

 boiled for five minutes. Below the boiling 



point, the meat fell into several pieces, and 

 at the close of the experiment it had sep- 

 arated into coarse shreds. The juice can 

 be dried without losing its effect, but its 

 efficiency in this respect does not appear 

 to have been tested over a longer period 

 than six months." — Agricultural Nczus. 



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