In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Advances in Zoology and Botany: Ethnomedicinal List of Plants Treating Fever in Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra, India

Kapālaphoḍī (or Kapāḻaphoḍī) in the Marathi language refers to the medicinal climber “Cardiospermum halicacabum L.”, and is used for ethnomedicine treatment of Fever in Ahmednagar district, India. The parts used are: “Whole plant”.

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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)

Kapalaphodi in India is the name of a plant defined with Cardiospermum halicacabum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Cardiospermum truncatum A. Rich. (among others).

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

· Rumphia (1849)
· Ueber einige künstliche Geschlechter aus der Malvenfamilie, denn der Klasse der Monadelphien (1787)
· The Gardeners Dictionary (1754)
· Tentamen Florae Abyssinicae (1847)
· Regnum Vegetabile, or ‘a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers’ (1993)
· Ethnobotany (2007)

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

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

kapāḷaphōḍī (कपाळफोडी).—f A plant, Octandria monogynia. Called in some districts cirabōṭī also phōmpēṭī. Its fruit (kapāḷaphōḍā m) is puffed or air-blown. Children, by pressing it to their forehead (kapāḷa), burst it with a pop. Hence its name.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

kapāḷaphōḍī (कपाळफोडी).—a Importunate.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

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Full-text: Ciraboti, Phompeti.

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