Papaya Leaf Juice – Extremely Useful in Dengue Fever

Papaya, a common fruit you can find everywhere in India and several parts of the world as well. Locally this fruit doesn’t have good repo among other so-called healthy fruits. But when summer season is around, and Dengue (kind of fever caused by mosquito bite) is around, Papaya takes the stage and becomes great in demand. In dengue, platelets count drop sharply and papaya juice proved to be very effective in increasing platelets count and normalizing it.

Dengue is a kind fever that is spread through the bite of an infected Aedes Aegypti mosquito. Symptoms of dengue emerge in 5 to 7 days after an infected mosquito bites a person. It is possible to get infected by dengue several times in life of a person and each time the infection gets dangerous. Dengue symptoms are like: high fever, muscular pain, joint pain, headache, eye pain, rashes, liver dysfunction, nausea, vomiting and sudden drop in platelet count.

Platelets are very important part of your blood. Whenever our body gets any injury or cuts, these platelets rush to that part of the body to stop the bleeding. When platelet count is under 150,000, it is considered as low. A healthy person should have platelet count between 150,000 and 450,000 per micro liter. Apart from dengue fever, there are several other health problems like Vitamin B12 & Folic acid deficiency, cancer and some viral infections when platelet count is generally fall.

Papaya leaves have emerged as a big relief to the dengue patients. There is not any particular medicine available in the market for dengue. Doctors prescribe general fever medicines and if situation worsens then platelets are transmitted. In such condition, papaya leaves do miracle. It is packed with great medicinal properties. Papaya leaf extracts not only normalizes platelets but also repairs liver that is damaged by dengue.

Leaf juice can be extracted easily. Leaf should not be either too old or too young. Take only young papaya leaves for juice. Crush it or grind it and extract juice from it by using clean cloth. One or two spoon juice twice a day is sufficient. Continue this dose until platelet level gets its normal level. Any person can have papaya leaf juice, just to be healthy and make immune system strong. There is no side effect of papaya leaf juice yet reported. But yes, too much of anything can be harmful… even love!

Now a days, some pharmaceutical companies introduced pills made of papaya leaf extract. So, if papaya leaf is not available in your vicinity, you can take pills of papaya leaf extract.

Papaya leaf juice is believed to be helpful in other diseases also. Due to its great medicinal properties, people around the world have reported benefits in maintaining blood sugar level in diabetes, dengue, chikungunya, cancer, Parkinson’s, constipation, skin care, and boosting immune system.

Therefore, a kind request to the readers of this blog—Please plant some papaya trees where you live. This way, we can increase greenery and lead a healthy life as well.