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BIBLIO (Ayurveda)

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 - DRAVYAGUNA VIGNANA VOL.2,5,5N
Author - PROF. P.V. SHARMA
Title - GANAS OF VAHATA
Author - N.S. MOOSS
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 - NIGHANTU ADARSA VOL. I & II
Author - BAPALAL G. VAIDYA
Title - SOME CONTROVERSIAL DRUGS OF INDIA
Author - DR. BAPLAL 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 INDIA VOL 12

Distribution

Global: Pakistan._x000D_ India: Jammu & Kashmir, Himchal Pradesh and Uttaranchal. W. Himalayas, in subalpine regions, 3200-3800 m.

Title - FLORA OF INDIA VOL 12

Author - ED. B.D. SHARMA & M.SANJAPPA , N.P. BALAKRISHNAN

Title - Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol II

Distribution

INDIA: Western Himalaya; HIMACHAL PRADESH: Kinnaur, Lahul and Spiti.

Title - Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol II

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

Title - Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Himachal Pradesh

Distribution

Kashmir, surrounding country on moist slopes at 2600-4000 m., Chenab, Jhelam 3000-3800 m., Himachal Pradesh

Title - Medicinal and Aromatic Plants of Himachal Pradesh

Author - Dr. Narain Singh Chauhan

Botanical Name -

Saussurea costus (FALC.) LIPSCH.

Full Botanical citation -

Saussurea costus (Falc.) Lipsch. in Bot. Zurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 49: 131. 1964; S. Karthikeyan & al., Flowering Plants of India - Dicots. 1: 264. 2009.

Family -

ASTERACEAE

System(s) of Indian Medicine -

Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Folk, Sowa-Rigpa

Botanical Synonyms (1) -

Saussurea lappa C.B.CL.
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Full Botanical citation -
Saussurea lappa (Decne.) Sch.-Bip. in Linnaea 19: 331. 1846; P.K. Hajra in P.K. Hajra & al., Fl. India 12: 196. 1995.

Vernacular names -

Total 107 Vernacular names found in 10 languages.

English (2) - costus root, kuth

Hindi (10) - koostha, koot, kootha, kot, kur, kust, kut, kuth, pachak, pokharmul

Kannada (6) - kankushta, koshta, koshtha, kosta, kostha, kosuta

Malayalam (4) - kottam, seppudday, sepuddy, simakkottam

Marathi (4) - koshta, kot, kushthh, ouplet

Sanskrit (50) -

Sanskrit Comments

agada, amaya, apya, bhasura, dushta, gada, gadakhya, gadavha, gadavhaya, haribhadraka, ja, jarana, kadakhya, kakala, kashmirja, kashtam, kasmira, kaubera, kinjalka, kushta, kushtam, kushtha, kustha, kusthah, kustham, kuthika, kutsita, niruja, padmaka, pakala, pakalam, palaka, paribhadraka, paribhavya, pauskara, pavana, puskara, puskaramula, rama, roga, rogavhaya, ruja, ruk, ruka, utpala, utpalam, vaniraja, vapya, vyadhi, vyapya

Tamil (15) - chagal koshtam, goshtam, gostan, gostham, jathikoshtam, katakuvayam, koshtam, kostam, kostam 2, kostum, kottam, kura, kutavapiritam, oli, putchuk

Telugu (7) - cengala, changala, chengulva, kostamu, kostu, kushtamu, kustam

Tibetan (2) - ru rta, ru-rta

Urdu (7) - karwa koth, quest shirin, qust, qust shirin, qust talkh, qust-i-talkh, qust-shirin