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Apple, Balsam
| CAUTION: PROFESSIONAL USE ONLY! Large doses result in death! |
A climbing annual plant of the cucurbit family which is native to eastern India and cultivated as an ornamental fruit. Fruit is warty, ovate and angular, orange-red in color and resembles a cucumber.
PROPAGATION: By seed in spring.
MEDICINAL USES:
A liniment was made by adding the pulped fruit (minus the seeds) to almond oil and used for piles, burns, chapped hands.The pulp was used as a poultice.The fluid extract was employed for dropsy.
DOSE = TRADITIONAL DOSAGES FOR PROFESSIONAL NOTE ONLY