Vetpalai: 1 definition

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

1) Vetpalai 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) Vetpalai is also identified with Wrightia arborea It has the synonym Nerium tomentosum Roxb. (etc.).

3) Vetpalai is also identified with Wrightia tinctoria.

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

· Numer. List
· J. Cytol. Genet. (1990)
· Taxon (1977)
· Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica (1775)
· Symbolae Botanicae (Vahl) (1794)
· International Journal of Crude Drug Research (1987)

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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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