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Gohyah tea

**Gohyah tea**
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Type:	Herbal

Other names:	Bitter Melon, Balsam pear, Momordica chinensis
Origin:	Brazil

Quick description:	Traditional medicinal. Makes a green, earthy broth also used in soup.

Gohyah tea, is made from dried slices of the Bitter Melon or balsam pear: a cucurbitaceousplant with a warty, wrinkled surface. It is sold as a medicinal tea, and a culinary vegetable.

A typical commercial package will make a claim similar to the following:

Gohyah Tea is good for bile, liver, dieuretic. Helpful to digestion; prevent from influenza, throat inflammation. Reduce cholesterol in the blood.

Gohyah is not listed in the Grieve's herbal database, the MPNA database at Michigan University or in the Phytochemical Database of the USDA - ARS - NGRL. Nevertheless it has been lauded the world over for its strong medicinal properties.

External links

Ethnomedical datasheet

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