Curry Leaves
Learn about curry leaves for hair, their traditional Indian use, natural compounds, scalp relevance and what modern research actually says about hair growth.
Origin
Indian Subcontinent to parts of South and Southeast Asia
Traditional wisdom
Culinary use, traditional medicine and hair/scalp oiling practices
Why Soumm chose it
Traditional hair conditioning and inclusion in herbal hair-oil preparations
Quick facts
- Botanical name
- Murraya koenigii (L.) Spreng.; currently treated by Kew as Bergera koenigii L.
- Common names
- Kadi Patta, Curry Leaf, Curry Tree Leaf, Meetha Neem
- Source type
- Aromatic tropical shrub or small tree
- Part used
- Leaves
- Natural constituents
- Carbazole alkaloids, flavonoids, terpenoids, coumarins, carotenoids and volatile aromatic compounds
- Scalp relevance
- Potential antioxidant and antimicrobial relevance; evidence remains mainly experimental
- Evidence status
- Strong traditional relevance and promising experimental evidence, but insufficient evidence to establish isolated curry leaves as a treatment for human hair loss.