Padmapunya: 1 definition

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

Padmapunya in India is the name of a plant defined with Cheilocostus speciosus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Costus vaginalis Salisb. (among others).

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

· Quarterly Journal of Chinese Forestry (1988)
· Flora of the British West Indian Islands (1864)
· Observationes Botanicae (1783)
· Zingiberaceae
· Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus (1788)
· Florula Javanica (1825)

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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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