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Artocarpus altilis (Moraceae) Breadfruit, Nirphanas, Kadgi, Sukun, Ulu

Artocarpus altilis (Breadfruit) Photographs © Mangesh Mangaonkar, Hodawade. Used with permission. Here is the Artocarpus altilis monograph, drafted to match the established architectural and stylistic constraints. --- Artocarpus altilis (Moraceae) Breadfruit, Sukun, Ulu Artocarpus altilis, known as Breadfruit or Sukun, is a staple crop of the Pacific Islands whose culinary and medicinal significance have been intertwined for millennia. The tree produces a large, starchy frui

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Carica papaya (Caricaceae) Papaya, Papai, Papita, Pappali

Photographs © Mangesh Mangaonkar, Hodawade. Used with permission. Carica papaya, known as Papaya or Pawpaw, is a tropical fruit tree whose every part has found a place in traditional medicine. The ripe fruit is beloved worldwide as a sweet, orange-fleshed breakfast staple, but the plant's therapeutic reputation rests on its unripe fruit, leaves, seeds, and latex. Papain, a proteolytic enzyme concentrated in the unripe fruit, has been used for centuries as a meat tenderiser a

Prehealing: A Paradigm Shift Beyond the East-West Divide

We have all come across those special practitioners who talk about holistic medicine while they ridicule the allopathic way of treatment or avoid it altogether. As well as those trained experts with degrees upon degrees to their credit who laugh at holistic medicine as a primitive, unscientific, anecdote-based modality. How is it that we have politicized medicine and defined its boundaries? Isn't medicine just about addressing an issue? Healing a problem? Creating ease to dis

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