Chayapattai: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Chayapattai in India is the name of a plant defined with Morinda citrifolia in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Platanocephalus orientalis Crantz (among others).
2) Chayapattai is also identified with Morinda coreia It has the synonym Morinda tinctoria Roxb. (etc.).
3) Chayapattai is also identified with Morinda umbellata It has the synonym Guttenbergia umbellata (L.) Zoll. & Moritzi (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Asiatic Researches (1795)
· Flora de Filipinas, ed. 2 (1845)
· Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1984)
· Essay Pl. Burdek: (1860)
· Hortus Bengalensis (1814)
· Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India (1969)
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