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Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Kaivartikā (कैवर्तिका) is the Sanskrit name for a medicinal plant possibly identified with Ventilago madraspatana (red creeper) from the Rhamnaceae or “buckthorn family” of flowering plants, according to verse 3.120-121 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. Notes: Ṭhākur B.S. et al identify it with either Smilax species or Ventilago species. Nāḍkarṇī suggests Ventilago madraspatana Gaertn. (Rhamnaceae). Even after Nāḍkarṇī’s identification the creeper needs further verification.

Kaivartikā is mentioned as having fourteen synonyms: Suraṅgā, Latā, Vallī, Drumāruhā, Riṅgiṇī, Vastraraṅgā and Bhagā.

Properties and characteristics: “Kaivartikā is light (laghu), spermatogenic and astringent (kaṣāya). It alleviates affections due to kapha and cures cough and asthma. It improves the diminished digestive power (appetiser)”.

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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.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Kaivartika in India is the name of a plant defined with Ventilago maderaspatana in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Ventilago bracteata Heyne ex Wallich, nom. nud. (among others).

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

· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1788)
· Hooker’s Journal of Botany Kew Gard. Misc. (1852)
· Rev. Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon (1996)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Kaivartika, for example diet and recipes, side effects, pregnancy safety, chemical composition, extract dosage, 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

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Kaivartikā (कैवर्तिका):—[from kaivartaka > kaivarta] f. Name of a plant, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Kaivartika 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)

Full-text: Vastraranga, Suranga, Rangin, Ringana, Valli, Lata, Bhaga, Ringani, Drumaruha, Dasharuha, Ringini, Dashapura.

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