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* Gas Chromatogrphy-Mass Spectrometry Analysis and Phytochemical Screening of Methanolic Fruit Extract of Momordica charantia

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Some Momordica species are grown in cultivation for their fleshy fruit, which are oblong to cylindrical in shape, orange to red in colour, prickly or warted externally, and in Momordica charantia burst when ripe, generally with elastic force, into irregular valves.

Momordica charantia ( bitter melon, Chinese: ku gua 苦瓜 ) is native to Africa but has been used in Chinese folk medicine for centuries as a ' bitter, cold ' herb, and has recently been brought into mainstream Chinese medicine as well as natural medical traditions around the world.

These include teasle gourd ( Momordica subangulata ), spine gourd ( Momordica dioica ), sweet gourd ( Momordica cochinchinensis ), balsam apple ( Momordica balsamina ), Momordica sahyadrica, known as vaika in Kerala and Momordica cymbalaria, called athalakka ’ iin Tamil Nadu.

Recent research has shown that the immature fruit might have some antibiotic, anticancer, and antiviral properties, particularly well suited for use in treatment of malaria, HIV, and diabetic conditions ( the use of Momordica fruit is contraindicated in a number of conditions, especially pregnancy-all Chinese medicinals should be used only under the supervision of a trained herbalist of Traditional Chinese Medicine ).

It is also known as caraille or carilley on Trinidad and Tobago, carilla in Guyana, cundeamor is a small variety very common in Puerto Rico ( actually is the Momordica balsamina ), " asorosi " or assorosie " in Haiti, and cerasee or cerasse in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean, including parts of South America ( although is known in Portuguese as melão de São Caetano-and Spanish-speaking areas, however is known by the Okinawan or Japanese names in others regions ).

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Vietnamese gac ( Momordica Cochinchinensis Spreng.

Momordica is a genus of about 60 species of annual or perennial climbers herbaceous or rarely small shrubs belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae, natives of tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia and Australia.

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