Images and Information of Swertia chirayita

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 - A HANDBOOK OF MEDICINAL PLANTS
Author - DR.P.N.V.KURUP, DR.V.N.K.RAMADAS & JOSHI,P
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 MEDICINAL PLANTS VOLUME .VOL 1-5
Author - WARRIER,P.K. et al (EDS.)
Title - INDIAN PHARMACEUTICAL CODEX VOL.I
Author - MUKERJI,B
Title - LA-HARITA SAMHITA
Author - ALIX RAISON
Title - MATERIA INDICA
Author - WHITELAW AINSLIE
Title - NIGHANTU ADARSA VOL. I & II
Author - BAPALAL G. VAIDYA
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 Himachal Pradesh Vol II

Distribution

INDIA: Temperate Himalaya, Kashmir to Bhutan; HIMACHAL PRADESH: Simla.

Title - Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol II

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

Title - Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Himachal Pradesh

Distribution

Mandi, Kullu, Kinnaur, Kangra, Kotgarh, & Rohru division ( rare )

Title - Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Himachal Pradesh

Author - Dr. Narain Singh Chauhan

Botanical Name -

Swertia chirayita ROXB. EX (FLEMING) KARST.

Family -

GENTIANACEAE

System(s) of Indian Medicine -

Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Homeopathy, Folk, Sowa-Rigpa

Botanical Synonyms (3) -

Gentiana chirayta ROXB.
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Full Botanical citation -
Gentiana chirayita Roxb. ex Fleming in Asiat. Res. 11: 167. 1812; R.D.Gaur, Fl. Distr. Garhwal North West Himalaya (With Ethnobotanical Notes), TransMedia, Srinagar (Garhwal), India, 408. 1999.
Ophelia chiraita GRISEB.
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Full Botanical citation -
Ophelia chirayita Griseb., Gen. Sp. Gentian. 320. 1839 (as chirata); R.D.Gaur, Fl. Distr. Garhwal North West Himalaya (With Ethnobotanical Notes), TransMedia, Srinagar (Garhwal), India, 408. 1999.
Swertia chirata (ROXB. EX. FLEM.) KAR.

Vernacular names -

Total 87 Vernacular names found in 9 languages.

Hindi (8) - charaita, charayatah, chiraitu, chirata, chirayata, cirayata, kiryat-charayatah, nepalinim

Kannada (4) - chiraayitha, kiraatha kaddi, nela baevu, nelabevu

Malayalam (4) - kiriyatta, kiriyattu, nilaveppa, uttarakiriyattu

Marathi (5) - charayatah, chiraayitha, chirayita, kaade kiraaith, kiraaith

Sanskrit (35) -

Sanskrit Comments

anaryatikta, ardhatikta, bhunimba, bhunimbaha, bhutika, chiratika, chiratikta, chirayita, haima, jvarantaka, jwaranthakah, kairaka, kandatikta, kanditiktaka, kiranta, kirata, kirata-tikta, kirataka, kirataticta, kiratatikta, kiratatiktah, kiratatiktaka, naditikta, naipala, nepalanimba, nepalanimbah, nidrari, ramasenaka, ramsena, sannipatha, sutiktaka, ta, tikta, trinanimba, viktaka

Tamil (18) - anariyatittam, cirat kucci, cirattakucci, kantakam, kantam, kariyattu2, kirakati, kiratam, kiriyattu, kiriyattu2, kokanam, nattu nilavempu, nila-vembu, nilavembu, nilavempu, shayraet coochie, shirattakuchi, verkkiriyattu

Telugu (5) - nelavaema, nelavemu, nila-vemu, nilavembu, nilaveru

Tibetan (4) - ta go ta, ti-kta, tig ta, tig ta (p)