Biology (plants and animals)

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

Vanatiktika in India is the name of a plant defined with Cocculus hirsutus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Holopeira torrida Miers (among others).

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

· Fitoterapia (2002)
· Burmah, its People and Natural Productions ed. 3 (1860)
· Leonardi Plukenetii
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1851)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2004)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Vanatiktika, for example extract dosage, health benefits, pregnancy safety, side effects, chemical composition, diet and recipes, 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: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vanatiktikā (वनतिक्तिका).—f.

(-kā) A climbing plant, (Cissampelos hexandra.) E. kan in the fem. form added to the preceding.

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

Vanatiktikā (वनतिक्तिका):—[=vana-tiktikā] [from vana > van] f. Clypea Hernandifolia, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vanatiktikā (वनतिक्तिका):—[vana-tiktikā] (kā) 1. f. A climbing plant (Cissampelos hexandra).

[Sanskrit to German]

Vanatiktika in German

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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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Partial matches: Tiktika, Vana.

Full-text: Ambashtha.

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Indian Medicinal Plants (by Kanhoba Ranchoddas Kirtikar)

43. Cocculus villosus, DC. < [Menispermaceae (moonseed family)]

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The Agni Purana (by N. Gangadharan)

Chapter 363 - The words denoting earth, city, forest and herbs

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