Juice from pawpaw leaves have been proven to increase blood platelets

Alternate medicine has shown some silver lining. People over a decade have consumed Carica papaya leaf juice or extract, not just to arrest the falling platelet counts but to increase it back to normalcy.

Dengue fever is a tropical disease caused by flavivirus with four distinct serotypes (DV-1, DV-2, DV-3, and DV-4). Mosquito of the Aedes genus, i.e. Aedes aegypti and sometimes Aedes albopictus are the main vectors responsible to spread the virus between humans.

During febrile phase the platelets start dropping and can touch the bottom low of 5000/μL. Drop in the platelet count is one aspect of dengue illness, and it is an important factor to take into consideration. People over decade have resorted to papaya leaf juice to increase platelet counts and to fight dengue. Recently a few experiments have been conducted to validate the role of papaya leaf juice to cure dengue and to treat low platelet count.

A pilot study was done on a dengue patient with thrombocytopenia and leukopenia in a tertiary Ayurveda hospital by Deepak BSR and his colleagues.

Carica papaya leaves contain various phytoconstituents like tannins, cardiac glycosides saponins, and alkaloids. The alkaloids pseudocarpaine, carpaine, and dehydrocarpaine I and II have a protective effect on the bone marrow. It prevents its destruction and improves its ability to produce platelets. It prevents platelet destruction in the blood. Carica papaya leaves promote formation of blood cellular components or haemopoiesis, especially the myeloblasts and megarkaryocytes in the bone marrow, medindia reports.
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