Gna Health Dictionary

Linn.

Family: Asteraceae.

Habitat: Throughout India, ascending up to 3,350 m in the Himalayas.

English: Jersey Cudweed, Cotton Weed, Cat's Foot, Everlasting Flower.

Folk: Bal-raksha.

Action: Leaves—astringent, haemostatic, vulnerary. The tomentum is applied as counter- irritant in gout, also used as tinder.... gnaphalium luteo-album

(gnatho-) combining form denoting the jaw. Example: gnathoplasty (plastic surgery of).... gnath

n. the lowest point of the midline of the lower jaw (mandible).... gnathion

n. a genus of parasitic nematodes. Adult worms are commonly found in the intestines of tigers, leopards, and dogs. The presence of the larval stage of G. spinigerum in humans, who are not the normal hosts, causes a skin condition called *creeping eruption.... gnathostoma