Vepala: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) Vepala in India is the name of a plant defined with Gisekia pharnaceoides in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Pharnaceum occultum Forsk.) (Latin pharnacion or pharnaceon, ii was applied by Plinius to a plant, a species of panax, so named after Pharnaces, the name of two kings of Pontus (among others).
2) Vepala is also identified with Wrightia arborea It has the synonym Nerium coraea Buch.-Ham. ex A. DC. (etc.).
3) Vepala is also identified with Wrightia tinctoria.
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.
· International Journal of Crude Drug Research (1987)
· Flora of Iran (1975)
· Calcutta Journal of Natural History and Miscellany of the Arts and Sciences in India (1847)
· Allgemeine Medizinisch-Pharmazeutische Flora
· Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society (1810)
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