Ivy gourd which his called as Kovaikkai in Tamil is mostly planted for the main reason of its medicinal values. Let�s take a look at these precious medicinal values it contains:
� Ivy gourd has the nature of curing fever
� It�s also helpful in inducing high amounts of milk in young mothers who are unable to secrete enough amount
� The roots of this plant are capable of stopping vomiting too. The roots are available like a beet.
� Leaf extract from this plant helps get rid of severe pain
� The leaves are also helpful in treating skin diseases. Itching on skin, boils, prickly heat, cracks on skin, etc are some of those which can be cure using these leaves
� All its fruits, vegetable form, leaves and roots are helpful in subsiding diabetes
� The vegetable is also helpful in treating fix
� Poisonous bites can be cured with the extracts of ivy gourd leaves
� This vegetable has the nature of inducing body heat and sweat
� Siddha medicines say this is capable of curing incurable wounds
Make use of the vegetable and get rid of any of the ailment as mentioned above