Cucumis melo

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Annual climbing or creeping herb, stem angular, scabrous. Leaves orbicular reniform, 5 angled or 5 lobed, scabrous on both surfaces. Flowers unisexual, yellow. Fruit slender and elongate up to 90cm long, pale or dark green in colour, smooth or rigid.
The fruit is appetiser, laxative, diuretic, aphrodisiac , antilithic and tonic and is useful in insanity, dyspepsia and general debility. The seeds are cooling, diuretic and useful in bronchitis, chronic fever, ophthalmia, nephropathy and burning sensation.