Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Musintsana in Southern Africa is the name of a plant defined with Erythrina caffra in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Chirocalyx pubescens Walp. (among others).

2) Musintsana is also identified with Erythrina fusca It has the synonym Duchassaingia glauca Walp. (etc.).

3) Musintsana is also identified with Erythrina humeana It has the synonym see E.H.M. Cox, Plant-hunting in China. A history of botanical exploration in China and the Tibetan marches. 47–48. London 1945, Emil Bretschneider (1833–1901), History of European Botanical Discoveries in China. [Reprint of the original edition 1898.] Leipzig 1981, Ray Desmond, Dictionary of British & Irish Botanists and Horticulturists. 364. 1994. (etc.).

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

· Annales de la Société Botanique de Lyon (1914)
· The Leguminosae of Tropical Africa (1929)
· Allgemeine Gartenzeitung (1834)
· Linnaea (1851)
· Brittonia (1939)
· Flora Cochinchinensis (1790)

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

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