Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Tittikam in India is the name of a plant defined with Alpinia galanga in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Zingiber sylvestre Gaertn., nom. illeg. (among others).

2) Tittikam is also identified with Citrullus colocynthis It has the synonym Colocynthis vulgaris Schrad. (etc.).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Index Seminum [Goettingen] (1833)
· Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London (1812)
· Flora Cochinchinensis (1790)
· Species Plantarum
· Garcia Orta, Sér. Bot. (1976)
· Plants of the Coast of Coromandel (1820)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Tittikam, for example chemical composition, extract dosage, pregnancy safety, diet and recipes, side effects, health benefits, have a look at these references.

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

Languages of India and abroad

Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Tittikam (தித்திகம்) noun < tiktaka. (வைத்திய மலையகராதி [vaithiya malaiyagarathi])

1. Wild snake-gourd. See பேய்ப்புடோல். [peyppudol.]

2. Galangal; அரத்தை. [arathai.]

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Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.

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Ends with: Atittikam, Nitittikam.

Full-text: Samatirthika.

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