Karasaana: 1 definition

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

1) Karasaana in India is the name of a plant defined with Ficus asperrima in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Ficus asperrima Teijsm. & Binn..

2) Karasaana is also identified with Ficus exasperata It has the synonym Ficus serrata Forssk. (etc.).

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

· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1984)
· Flore de Madagascar et des Comores (1952)
· Enumeratio Plantarum (1805)
· Nederlandsch Kruidkundig Archief.
· Species Plantarum
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2007)

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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.

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