Audbidha

Audbidha are the materials taken from vegetable sources and used in the Pharmacology of Ayurveda. There are four vegetable sources :

1.    Vanaspati : Trees that bear fruit without flowers
2.    Vanaspatya : Trees whose fruit develop from flowers
3.    Oshadhi : Plants which die after their seeds develop.
4.    Viruth : Creepers.