Udir chakan: 1 definition

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

Udir chakan in India is the name of a plant defined with Launaea intybacea in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Lactuca runcinata DC. (among others).

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

· Icones Plantarum Rariorum (1784)
· Englera (1997)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1838)
· Synopsis Generum Compositarum (1832)
· Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Genève (1910)

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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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