Plant Details

Accepted name:: Momordica cochinchinensis (Lour.) Spreng. [Cucurbitaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
adavi-kakara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
adavikaakara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
adavikakara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
balsam-pear	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bhat karela	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bhat-karela	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
bhat-karelaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
chinese bitter-cucumber	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
chinese-cucumber	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
cochinchina balsam apple	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
cochinchina balsam pear	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
cochinchina momordica	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
cochinchina momordica seed	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
cundeamor	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
gangerua	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gangeruka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
giant spine gourd	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
gser me che ba	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
gulkakra	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
gulkakraa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
gấc	Other	Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
hpak-se-saw	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
indische bittergurke	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
jalakaravalli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaadu kaakara	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kaaravellajalaja	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
kakana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kakrol	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
karka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karkaphala	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karkata	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
karkataka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
kartalen	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kathaamla	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
krindana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kshudradhatri	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
kshudramalakasandna	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
momordicae semen	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
mrigalendaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mrigavitsadrisha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mu bie zi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011)
mu bieh zih	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
mubiezi	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
muricie	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mù biē téng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
mù biē zǐ	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
mùbiēzǐ	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
palupakal	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
samon-nwe	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
semen momordicae	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
ser mé chewa	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
spiked fruited cow's cucumber	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
spiny bitter-cucumber	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
spiny bittergourd	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
sweet gourd	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
taggig bittergurka	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
taw-thabut	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
teruah	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
tha-myet	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
todana	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
གསེར་མེ་ཆེ་བ།	Other	Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020)
木瞳子	Other	Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
木鳖子	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
木鳖子根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
木鳖藤	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
木鼈子	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
seed	dried ripe seed	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
Seed, Leaf, Stem		Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015)
Seed		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
seed	dried seed	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
seed		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Fruit, seed		Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
leaves, fruit, seed, root		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Seeds		Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
Seed, root		Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
seed	dried ripe seed	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
seed		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 9 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Muricia cochinchinensis Lour. Fl. Cochinch.: 596 (1790).
Momordica cochinchinensis subsp. andamanica Kattuk., Y.C.Roy & Krishnaraj Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 65: 105 (2017).
Momordica macrophylla Gage Rec. Bot. Surv. India 3: 61 (1905).
Momordica meloniflora Hand.-Mazz. Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 58: 94 (1921).
Momordica mixta Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 3: 709 (1832).
Momordica ovata Cogn. in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 3: 446 (1881).
Momordica sphaeroidea Blanco Fl. Filip.: 771 (1837).
Momordica suringarii Cogn. in A.L.P.P.de Candolle & A.C.P.de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 3: 434 (1881).
Zucca commersoniana Ser. in A.P.de Candolle, Prodr. 3: 319 (1828).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Momordica cochinchinensis	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Momordica cochinchinensis (Lour.) Sp-reng.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Momordica cochinchinensis (Lour.) Spreng.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Materia Med. in Sowa Rigpa (Wangyal et al., 2020) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018) Med. & Pois. Pl. 1 (Padua et al., 1999) Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997) Med. Pl. in Viet Nam (WHO, 1990) Orders & Families of Med. Pl. in Philippines (Carag & Buot, 2017) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Pl. in Trad. Med. Systems in Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Momordica cochinchinensis (Lour.) Spreng.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Momordica cochinchinensis (Lour.) Sprengel	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Momordica cochinchinensis Spreng.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Momordica cochinchinensis Sprengel	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Momordica cochinchinensis Sprenger	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
Muricia cochinchinensis Lour.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)

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