Maddu Thoppu From Coorg

About Maddu Thoppu - A Medicinal Leaf In Coorg

The wet, dark months of the monsoon bring about a mysterious transformation in an otherwise quite unremarkable plant known locally as “maddu thoppu”, medicine leaf (Justicia wynaadensis). 

In Coorg, leaves of this plant are said to hold maximal medicinal properties on the eighteenth day of the Kakkada month of the Kodava calendar (may be in July or August). 

This is the festival called Kakkada Padinett. On this day, madd toppu leaves are said to emit a strange sweet unique fragrance which is not evident a day prior or after that. They are plucked and made into cakes or sweet porridge.

Come to Coorg to be a part of this auspicious occasion and to taste the delicacy.

By Divya Shree, Asian Adventures - India

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