The Sanskrit term Vanavṛkṣa can be transliterated into English as Vanavrksa or Vanavriksha, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Ancient Science of Life: Vaidyavallabha: An Authoritative Work on Ayurveda Therapeutics

Vanavṛkṣa (वनवृक्ष) refers to Kārpāsa (Gossypium herbaceum) and is the name of a medicinal plant dealt with in the 17th-century Vaidyavallabha written by Hastiruci.—The Vaidyavallabha is a work which deals with the treatment and useful for all 8 branches of Ayurveda. The text Vaidyavallabha has been designed based on the need of the period of the author, availability of drugs (viz., Vanavṛkṣa) during that time, disease manifesting in that era, socio-economical-cultural-familial-spiritual-aspects of that period Vaidyavallabha.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

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Partial matches: Vriksha, Vana.

Starts with: Vanavrikshanyaya.

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Full-text: Vanavrikshanyaya, Karpasa, Vana, Sankata.

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Ancient Science of Life

Vaidyavallabha: An Authoritative Work on Ayurveda Therapeutics < [Volume 36 (issue 2), Oct-Dec 2016]

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