Images and Information of Calotropis procera

BIBLIO (Ayurveda)

Title - A CATALOGUE OF INDIAN SYNONYMS
Author - MOODEEN SHERIFF
Title - A DICTIONARY OF THE ECONOMIC PRODUCTS OF INDIA VOL.I - 4
Author - GEORGE WATT
Title - ASTANGA HRIDAYA KOSHA
Author - ANONYMOUS
Title - AYURVEDIC DRUGS AND THEIR PLANT SOURCES
Author - V.V. SIVARAJAN AND INDIRA BALACHANDRAN
Title - DRAVYAGUNA VIGNANA VOL.2,5,5N
Author - PROF. P.V. SHARMA
Title - GLOSSARY OF VEGETABLE DRUGS IN BRHTTRAYI
Author - THAKUR BALWANT SINGH & DR. K.C.CHUNEKAR
Title - INDIAN MATERIA MEDICA, FIRST EDITION 1908, 3RD EDITION 1954
Author - LATE DR.K.M.NADKARNI & A.K.NADKARNI
Title - INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS Vol 1 -4
Author - K.R. KIRTIKAR, B.D. BASU & AN I.C.S.
Title - INDIAN PHARMACEUTICAL CODEX VOL.I
Author - MUKERJI,B
Title - THE AYURVEDIC FORMULARY OF INDIA PART 1. FIRST EDITION
Author - Ministry of Health & family Welfare
Title - THE AYURVEDIC PHARMACOPOEIA OF INDIA PART 1. VOL.1
Author - ANONYMOUS

BIBLIO (Distribution)

Title - Flora of Madhya Pradesh Vol. II

Distribution

Balaghat, Chhatarpur, Damoh, Durg, Hoshangababd, Jabalpur, Panna, Raipur, Rajnandgaon, Rewa, Sagar, Satna, Seoni, Shahdol, SIdhi Common in wastelands, along bunds of cultivated fields and roadsides

Title - Flora of Madhya Pradesh Vol. II

Author - Mudgal, Khanna,Hajra

Title - Flora of Chamba District (Himachal Pradesh)

Distribution

Global: Tropical Africa, W.Asia to India. Chamba: Rare in waste places, 600-1200 m.

Title - Flora of Chamba District (Himachal Pradesh)

Author - Harindar Singh and M Sharma

Title - The Flora of Orissa Vol II

Distribution

In the hot and drier parts of India from Punjab and Sind to W. and C. India; Tamil Nadu. Afghanistan, Arab countries to tropical Africa. Orissa: Parlakhemundi, Ganjam.

Title - The Flora of Orissa Vol II

Author - Saxena H.O.,Brahmam M.

Title - Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol II

Distribution

INDIA: Throughout India; HIMACHAL PRADESH: Simla.

Title - Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol II

Author - H.J.chowdhery & B.M.Wadhwa

Title - A Forest Flora for Kumaon

Distribution

Kumaon

Title - A Forest Flora for Kumaon

Author - A.E. Osmaston

Title - Flora of Maharashtra State (Dicotyledons) Volume 2

Distribution

Maharashtra: Very common and abundant on wastelands. Common throughout.

Title - Flora of Maharashtra State (Dicotyledons) Volume 2

Author - N.P.Singh, P.Lakshminarasimhan, S.Karthikeyan & P.V. Prasanna

Title - Flora of Gujarat State Vol 1

Distribution

Throughout; common.

Title - Flora of Gujarat State Vol 1

Author - G.L.Shah

Title - Flora of the Indian Desert

Distribution

Tropical Africa, Persia, Pakist;an, (Sind), India (Throughout)

Title - Flora of the Indian Desert

Author - Bhandari M.M

Botanical Name -

Calotropis procera R.BR.

Full Botanical citation -

Calotropis procera (Aiton) R.Br. in W.T. Aiton, Hortus kew. ed. 2. 2: 78. 1811; S. Karthikeyan & al., Flowering Plants of India - Dicots. 1: 158. 2009.

Family -

ASCLEPIADACEAE

System(s) of Indian Medicine -

Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Folk, Sowa-Rigpa

Vernacular names -

Total 72 Vernacular names found in 9 languages.

English (3) - apple of sodom, french cotton, sodom apple

Hindi (15) - aak, aakdo, aakro, ag, ak, akada, akaro, akh, akha, akra, dudla, madar, mudar, safed-ak, safedak

Kannada (4) - bili aekka, bili aekkada gida, bili yekkada gida, kempu ekka

Malayalam (2) - erikku, erukku

Marathi (2) - mandara, rui

Sanskrit (35) -

Sanskrit Comments

adityapushpika, alarka, alarkah, arka, arkah, arkaparna, arkavrikshaha, asphota, bhanu, bimbora, dirghpushpa, ganarupaka, kashthila, ksiraparna, mandara, pi, pratapa, rajarka, raktarka, ravi, rupika, sadapushpa, sadapushpi, shambhu, sharkarapushpa, shitakarka, shuklaphala, shveta, shvetarka, tapana, tulaphala, vasuka, vedha, vikirana, vrittamallika

Tamil (4) - vellai erukkan, vellai erukku, vellerku, vellerukku

Telugu (5) - erra jilledu, jilledu, mandaaramu, mandaramu, nallajilledu

Tibetan (2) - a rga i rtsa ba, a rgai rtsa ba