Velvet bean: 1 definition

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

Velvet bean in English is the name of a plant defined with Pseudarthria hookeri in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Desmodium kerstenii O. Hoffm. (among others).

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

· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2004)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2007)
· Annalen des Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums (1905)
· Check-list For. Trees Shrubs Tang. Terr. (1949)
· Pharmaceutical Biology (2005)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1995)

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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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