Plant Details

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

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) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
bhat karela	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
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) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
chinese-cucumber	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) 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	Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
cundeamor	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
fan muh pee	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
fan muh pu	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
gac	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
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) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
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. & Animal in Trad. Med., 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) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
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)
momordica cochinchinensis whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
momordicae semen	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (2002) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
mook pit tsze	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
mrigalendaka	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mrigavitsadrisha	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
mu bie zi	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) TCM Pl. for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011)
mu bieh zih	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
mu hsieh	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
mu pie tzu	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
mu pieh tzu	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
mubiezi	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Maonan People in China (Hong et al., 2015) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
muh pee tsze	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
muricie	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
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)
pen ts'ao	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020)
samon-nwe	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
semen momordicae	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacop. 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) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) 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) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
taggig bittergurka	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
taw-thabut	Other	Med Pl. of Myanmar (DeFilipps & Krupnick, 2018)
teruah	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) 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)
turu-reisi	Other	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
uch-pieh-teze	Other	Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 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 Pl. 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	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021)
木鼈子	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
seed	dried ripe seed	Pharmacop. 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)
seed	dried seed	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022)
seed	dried seed	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021)
Seeds		Med. Pl. in China (WHO, 1997)
Seed, root		Pl. & Animal in Trad. Med., Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008)
seed	dried ripe seed	Pharmacop. of China (2005)
seed		Korean Herbal Pharmacop. (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) Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 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) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024) 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) Pharmacop. of China (2005) Pharmacop. of China (2010) Pharmacop. of China (2015) Pl. & Animal in Trad. Med., Viet Nam (Ngoc Van & Tap, 2008) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Pl. for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2021) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 4th English ed. (MOHW, 2022) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2024) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2025) 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 SPREN.	Dr. Duke's Databases: Ethnobotanical Subset (Duke, 2016)
Momordica cochinchinensis Spreng.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Kew's Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2020) 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 Pharmacop. (2002)
Muricia cochinchinensis Lour.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)

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