East indian globe thistle: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)East indian globe thistle in English is the name of a plant defined with Sphaeranthus indicus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Sphaeranthus mollis Roxb. ex DC. (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Taxon (1982)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Glimpses in Plant Research (1988)
· Nat. Hist. (1877)
· Species Plantarum. (2395)
· Nucleus (1975)
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Charaka Samhita (English translation) (by Shree Gulabkunverba Ayurvedic Society)
Chapter 4 - The Pharmaceutics of the Sponge Gourd (dhamargava-kalpa) < [Kalpasthana (Kalpa Sthana) — Section on Pharmaceutics]
Chapter 2b - Milk-saturated rice and other preparations (asikta-ksirika) < [Cikitsasthana (Cikitsa Sthana) — Section on Therapeutics]
Chapter 11 - The therapeutics of Pectoral Lesions (kshata-kshina-cikitsa) < [Cikitsasthana (Cikitsa Sthana) — Section on Therapeutics]