Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Wisdom Library: Local Names of Plants and Drugs

Parpataki in the Sanskrit language is the name of a plant identified with Gardenia latifolia from the Rubiaceae (Coffee) family. For the possible medicinal usage of parpataki, you can check this page for potential sources and references, although be aware that any some or none of the side-effects may not be mentioned here, wether they be harmful or beneficial to health.

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

Parpataki in India is the name of a plant defined with Gardenia latifolia in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Gardenia calyculata Roxb. (among others).

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

· Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (1981)
· Flora Indica, or ‘Descriptions of Indian Plants’ (1824)
· Hortus Kewensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew’ (1789)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Flora Indica, or ‘Descriptions of Indian Plants’ (1832)
· The Flora of British India (1880)

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

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Parpaṭakī (पर्पटकी):—[from parpaṭaka > parp] f. the same or some other med. plant, [Caraka]

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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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