The Sanskrit term Kuṣṭhaghna can be transliterated into English as Kusthaghna or Kushthaghna, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Ayurveda (science of life)

Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Kuṣṭhaghna (कुष्ठघ्न) is another name for Paṭola, a medicinal plant identified with Trichosanthes dioica (pointed gourd) from the Cucurbitaceae or “gourd family” of flowering plants, according to verse 3.22-24 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The third chapter (guḍūcyādi-varga) of this book contains climbers and creepers (vīrudh). Together with the names Kuṣṭhaghna and Paṭola, there are a total of sixteen Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.

Unclassified Ayurveda definitions

Source: Wisdom Library: Āyurveda and botany

Kuṣṭhaghna (कुष्ठघ्न) is the Sanskrit name for a group of medicinal plants, classified as “curing skin-diseases”, and originally composed by Caraka in his Carakasaṃhitā sūtrasthāna IV. The name is derived from the word kuṣṭha, translating to “leprosy” or “skin disease”. It is a technical term used throughout Āyurveda. Examples of plants pertaining to this category include Khadira (Acacia catechu), Saptaparṇa (Echites scholaris), Āragvadha (Cassia fistula) and Kararīra (Nerium odorum). The collection of herbs named Kuṣṭhaghna is one of the fifty Mahākaṣāya.

Source: gurumukhi.ru: Ayurveda glossary of terms

Kuṣṭhaghna (कुष्ठघ्न):—Substances indicated for skin disorders.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kuṣṭhaghna (कुष्ठघ्न).—m.

(-ghnaḥ) A medicinal plant, commonly Hiyavali: see hitāvalī. f. (-ghnī) 1. An esculent root, (Solanum Indicum:) see kākamācī 2. Opposite leaved fig tree; also kākoḍumbarikā. E. kuṣṭha the leprosy, and ghna what destroys.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Kuṣṭhaghna (कुष्ठघ्न):—[=kuṣṭha-ghna] [from kuṣṭha] m. ‘curing leprosy’, Name of the medicinal plant Hitāvalī (= hitāvalī), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] Name of a remedy for leprosy, [Suśruta]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kuṣṭhaghna (कुष्ठघ्न):—[kuṣṭha-ghna] (ghnaḥ) 1. m. A medicinal plant. (ghnī). 3. f. An esculent root; opposite-leaved fig tree.

[Sanskrit to German]

Kushthaghna in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Kushtha, Ghna.

Full-text: Kushthaka, Kushthaghni, Angarakushthaka, Haridra, Mahakashaya, Patola, Ghna.

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Atharvaveda and Charaka Samhita (by Laxmi Maji)

4b. Leprosy (Kuṣṭha) in the Caraka-saṃhitā < [Chapter 5 - Diseases and Remedies in Atharvaveda and Caraka-Saṃhitā]

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