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Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Wisdom Library: Āyurveda and botany

Kulatthikā (कुलत्थिका) is another word for Kulattha (Macrotyloma uniflorum, “horse-gram”) according to the Bhāvaprakāśa, which is a 16^th century medicinal thesaurus authored by Bhāvamiśra. The term is used throughout Ayurvedic literature.

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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)

Kulatthika in India is the name of a plant defined with Chamaecrista absus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Cassia foliolis L. (among others).

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

· Flora Malesiana (1996)
· Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics (1980)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Bot. Zeitung (Regensburg) (1805)
· Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (1871)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1996)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Kulatthika, for example health benefits, diet and recipes, extract dosage, chemical composition, pregnancy safety, side effects, have a look at these references.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kulatthikā (कुलत्थिका).—f.

(-kā) 1. A blue stone used as a collyrium. &c. 2. A sort of vetch, considered as a wild sort of the Dolichos biflorus. E. See the preceding, kan added to kulattha in the fem. form.

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

1) Kulatthikā (कुलत्थिका):—[from kulattha] f. a kind of Dolichos (cf. araṇyak), [Suśruta]

2) [v.s. ...] a blue stone used as a collyrium etc., [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kulatthikā (कुलत्थिका):—(kā) 1. f. A blue stone used as a collyrium; pulse.

[Sanskrit to German]

Kulatthika 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.

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Ends with: Aranyakulatthika.

Full-text: Kumbhakaraka, Gramyaranya, Kulala, Kumbhakara, Kulattha, Cakshushya, Aranya, Kula.

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Sushruta Samhita, volume 4: Cikitsasthana (by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna)

Chapter XVI - The medical treatment of Abscesses and Tumours

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