Mountain fig: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Mountain fig in English is the name of a plant defined with Ficus glumosa in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Urostigma fazokelense Miq. (among others).
2) Mountain fig is also identified with Ficus variolosa It has the synonym Ficus langbianensis Gagnepain.
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· London Journal of Botany (1842)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2007)
· Annales Museum Botanicum Lugduno-Batavi (1867)
· Notulae Systematicae. (1927)
· Biotropica (2006)
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The civilization of Babylonia and Assyria (by Morris Jastrow)
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