Curry Leaves
SCIENTIFIC NAME :
Murraya Koenigii
MEDICINAL VALUE :
In indigenous medicine, leaves, bark and root used as tonic, stimulant, carminative and stomachic.
NUTRIENT VALUE :
Vitamin A, vitamin C, calicium, proteins, carbohydrates, magnesium
CULINERY AND OTHER VALUES :
Curry leaves used in South India as a natural flavouring agent in various curries. Volatile oil finds application as a fixative for soap perfume.
GLOSSARY :
- English : Curry Leaves
- Tamil : Kariveppilai / Karivempu
- Malayalam : Kariveppila
- Telugu : Karivepaku / Karepaku
- Kannada : Karibevu / Baisoppu / Karibevina Soppu
- Hindi : Kadi Patta / Kathnim / Mitha Neem / Curry Patta / Gandhela / Bareanga
- Bengali : Curry Patta / Barsanga / Kariphulli
- Gujarati : Mitho Limdo / Meetho Limbado / Goranimb / Kadhilimbdo
- Konkani : Karbapathi / Beva Palo
- Marathi : Kadhi Patta / Karhinimb / Poospala / Gandla / Jhirang / Pandheri Kunthi
- Oriya : Bhrusanga Patra / Barsan / Basango / Bhuraunga
- Punjabi : Kadipatti / Curry Patta
- Tulu : Bevudirae
- Assamese : Narasingha নৰসিংহ .
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Pl add, in Assamese it is called Narasingha. নৰসিংহ .
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this is fascinating. ‘narasingha’ [नारसिंह narasiṁha], one of the names of vishnu, means ‘man-lion’ in sanskrit. is the curry tree considered sacred to the god narasingha, as tulasi is to kṛṣṇa?
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