Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c5.s7.154

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c5.s7.154

B. Classification of Plants based on Medicinal Properties.—*Charaka*¹ classifies plants primarily into two divisions—Purgatives ( विरेचन: ) and the Astringents ( कषाय: ). And the Purgatives are six hundred and the Astringents are five hundred in number. The number of pre-eminently astringent groups are fifty which might again be sub-grouped under ten heads or *Vargas*, thus:

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Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit