Plant Details

Accepted name:: Sicyos edulis Jacq. [Cucurbitaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
camochayote	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
chav chav	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
chayote	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. from Tlanchinol, Mexico (Andrade-Cetto, 2009) Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) Tlayeyecolpahtli. Med. Experim., Mexico (Fernández Martínez et al., 2021) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
chayóte espinoso	Other	Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexico (2001)
chinchayote	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
cho-cho	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
chocho	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
choko	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
chou-chou	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
chow chow	Other	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
chow-chow	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
choyote	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
christofine	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
christophine	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
chuchu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hypothesis to Local Pharmacop., Brazil (Lozano et al., 2014) Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
cocombre	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
cueza	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
fo shou gua	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
fu shou gua	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
fó shǒu guā	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
fó shǒu guā yè	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
fó zhǎng guā	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
hayato-uri	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
hé zhǎng guā	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
kayote	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
labu siam	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
machiche-francês	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
machucho	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
meliton	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
mirliton	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
mitlitons	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
moa kua	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
pipinela	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pipinella	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
sayote	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
seema-badane	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
seema-katti-rikkai	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
squash kaddu	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
stachelgurke	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tallote	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tayota	Other	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
the choco	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
timun duri	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
vegetable pear	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
vegetable-pear	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
waluh jipang	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
xuxú	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
yang si gua	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
佛手瓜	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
佛手瓜叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
佛掌瓜	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
合掌瓜	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Fruits, Leaves, Stem, Tuber		Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020)
leaf, frond		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
leaves, aerial parts, fruit		Tlayeyecolpahtli. Med. Experim., Mexico (Fernández Martínez et al., 2021)
fruit		Med. Pl. from Tlanchinol, Mexico (Andrade-Cetto, 2009)
leaf		Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexico (2001)
fruit, leaf		Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008)
fruit, leaf		Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 5 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sw. Fl. Ind. Occid. 2: 1150 (1800).
Chayota edulis (Jacq.) Jacq. Select. Stirp. Amer. Hist.: t. 245 (1780).
Sechium americanum Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 7: 50 (1806).
Sechium edule subsp. sylvestre Lira & Castrejón Acta Bot. Mex. 49: 57 (1999).
Sicyos laciniatus Descourt. Fl. Méd. Antilles 5: 103 (1827), nom. illeg.

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

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Sechium edule	Ayurvedic Med. Pl. of Sri Lanka (Samarasuriya et al., 2020) Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Tlayeyecolpahtli. Med. Experim., Mexico (Fernández Martínez et al., 2021)
Sechium edule (Jacq.) Sw.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Hypothesis to Local Pharmacop., Brazil (Lozano et al., 2014) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. & Pois. Pl. NE Brazil (Agra et al., 2007) Med. Pl. Latin America (Duke, 2009) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. from Tlanchinol, Mexico (Andrade-Cetto, 2009) Med. Pl. of NE Brazil (Fátima Agra et al., 2008) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Sechium edule (Jacq.) Swartz.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Sechium edule (Jacq.)Sw.	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020)
Sechium edule (Jscq.) Sw.	Farmacopea Herbolaria Mexico (2001)
Sechium edule Sw.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020) Med. Pl. in Ethnobot./Relig. Trads., Cuba (Carlomagno et al., 2015)
Sechium edule Swartz	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)
Sechium edule Swartz.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Sechium edulis	Duke's Ethnobot. DB: Ethnobot. (USDA, 1992-2016)
Sicyos edulis Jacq.	World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)

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