Greater celandine: 1 definition

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

Greater celandine in English is the name of a plant defined with Chelidonium majus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Chelidonium majus subsp. grandiflorum (DC.) Printz (among others).

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

· Sammlung von Vergiftungsfallen (1937)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Regnum Vegetabile, or ‘a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers’ (1993)
· A Colour Atlas of Poisonous Plants. (1983)
· J. Comp. Pathol. Ther., (1903)
· Poisonous Plants in Britain and Their Effects on Animals and Man. (1984)

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