Turknaels: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Turknaels in Southern Africa is the name of a plant defined with Erodium cicutarium in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Geranium pimpinellifolium Moench (among others).
2) Turknaels is also identified with Erodium moschatum It has the synonym Geranium moschatum Burm. f., nom. illeg. (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Botaniska Notiser (1980)
· Acta botanica neerlandica (1977)
· Mém. Acad. Sci. Lyon, Sect. Sci. (1851)
· Journal of the South African Veterinary Association (2002)
· Species Plantarum, ed. 4 (1800)
· Archivum immunologiae et therapiae experimentalis (1988)
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