Indrayan / Bitter Apple

Description :

The Colocynth collected from the Maritime Plain between the mountains of Palestine and also the Mediterranean, is especially shipped from Jaffa and called Turkish Colocynth . This is the best variety. It's an annual plant resembling the common watermelon. The stems are nonwoody and beset with rough hairs; the leaves stand alternately on long petioles.
They are triangular, obtuse,manycleft, multifariously sinuated, hairy, a fine green on upper surface, rough and pale underneat. Flowers yellow, showing separately at axils of leaves; fruit circular, size of an orange, yellow and sleek, once ripe contains inside a tough leatherlike rind, a white spongy pulp enclosing various ovate compressed white or brown seeds.

                                 

Details :

Botanical Name : Citrullus colocynthis

Common Name : Bitter Apple, Colocynth, Bitter cucumber, Egusi, Vine of Sodom,Colocynth, Peikkumatti, Hanjal , Paaparbudam

Bengali Name : indrayan, panjot, indrabaruni

Hindi Name : badi indrayan, ghorumba, indarayan

Kannada Name : hamekkae, hara-mekki-kayi

Malayalam Name : kattuvellari  Marathi Name : kadu-indravani

Sanskrit Name : atmaraksha, brihadvaruni, brihatphala

Tamil Name : kumatti, pey-komatti

Telugu Name : chitti-papara

Urdu Name : hanzal, indyaran, shahme-hinzal
French Name :oloquinte, chicotin
German Name :Bitterzitrulle, Bitterapfel
Italian Name :coloquintida, popone amaro
Arabic Name :hanzal

Synonyms Name : Cucumis colocynthis, Colocynthis vulgaris

Family Name : Cucurbitaceae

Part Used :Fruit

Medicinal Uses :

• It is a robust drastic hydragogue cathartic manufacturing, once given in massive doses, violent griping with, sometimes, bloody discharges and dangerous inflammation of the bowels.
• It has a unwholesome, bitter taste and is sometimes given in mixture form with the tinctures of podophylum and belladonna.

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