Gooseberry

We sow #aranelli seeds long back and finally get the result..

#gooseberry- about me

The tree is cultivated for its ornamental value, but also for food and medicinal purposes. While it produces some fruit throughout the year, Various parts of the plant are used for food.

It is candied in sugar or pickled in salt, used in chutney, relish or preserves. In the Philippines, it is used to make vinegar as well as eaten raw, soaked in salt or vinegar-salt solution and sold along the roadside. It is candied as well, usually stored in jars with syrup. They make these into a syrup in Malaysia.

The plant is also used medicinally. The peppered leaves are used to make a poultice to treat sciatica, lumbago and rheumatism (but have been observed to cause low blood pressure when combined with nitrates), while the seeds are used as a cathartic and the root, if prepared with care, as a purgative.The syrup is used to medicate the stomach, and in India the fruit is eaten as a blood-enhancer for the liver.