Momordica Charantia

Bitter Cucumber (Momordica Charantia) are being boxed at a South Miami shipper for the market place. Momordica is a genus of about 45 species of annual or perennial climbing herbaceous or shrubby plants belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae, natives of tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia and Australia. These vegetables have been used in Chinese folk medicine for centuries as a 'bitter, cold' herb, and have recently been brought into mainstream Chinese medicine as well as natural medical traditions around the world. It has been shown that the immature fruit might have some antibiotic, anticancer, and antiviral properties. Not for me. I never touch or eat these.