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Acorus calamus, rat root, sweet flag, sweet myrtle, sweet root, sweet sedge (Anonymous, 1996), vekhand (Samudralwar and Garg 1996), sweet cane, sweet grass, sweet segg, cinnamon-sedge, beewort, myrtle-flag, myrtle-grass, myrtle-sedge, sweet rush (Harding, 1972)
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Cupp, M.J. (2000). Calamus. In: Cupp, M.J. (eds) Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacology of Herbal Products. Forensic Science and Medicine. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-020-9_16
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