Want info about cerassil leaf ( in store called Jamaican cerassil leaf tea) it grows wild in my yard.?

Question

i know its good to drink when your sick or have acne, it helps with menstration. you can bathe with it and it cleans dishes and walls ect. really well. i cant find it online anywhere but i see the tea in the store but it doesnt say what its good for. i learned about it through friends from the carribean and im looking for a definition. the spelling cerassil i got from the box of tea -i saw the leaf on the box.

Answer 1

Momordica charantia = Cerasee (bush) tea

It is the same thing as the Chinese Bitter Melon (actually a vine).

Note that the Cerassil (that is the French spelling of Cerasee) tea that you buy is probably going to be less bitter than tea you prepare from a plant. How do they get the bitterness out?

Bitter Melon contains four very promising bioactive compounds.

These compounds activate a protein called AMPK, which is well known for regulating fuel metabolism and enabling glucose uptake, processes which are impaired in diabetics.

("We can now understand at a molecular level why bitter melon works as a treatment for diabetes," said David James, director of the diabetes and obesity program at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney.

A "bitter Gourd face" (苦瓜臉) is a common Chinese description for a serious or sad face.