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At the national level 32 Medicinal Plants (click here) have been prioritised for development.
The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB) has formulated schemes and |
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National
Medicinal Plants Board
Providing access to safe and affordable treatment is a major Global challenge faced by all nations. In South Asia, more than 80% of people rely on herbal remedies and traditional medicine based on the use of plants. Plants yield ingredients for some of the most advanced medications available today, and also yield remedies that have been used by indigenous communities for centuries.
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Green Pages
A searchable directory of herb businesses, cultivators, manufacturers, packagers, wholesalers, brokers, distributors and more. |
Inefficiency of handling
The collected materials are mostly dumped with the traders, who with their limited knowledge sort out the saleable ingredients in a crude manner, resulting in contamination with other materials leading to poor quality.... |
NMPB Supports traceability and certification
In an unorganised collection system the collector who gathers the material from the wild will have no idea about its destination or usage. |
NMPB promotes Awareness
Medicinal plants are gathered from the wild by collectors through the tribals, forest dwellers and other local people.The collected material is passed on to the traders in towns and cities .... |
The past century and a half has seen a major transformation in the practice of the Indigenous Systems of Medicine (Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Tibetan & Homeopathy). The days when the health care delivery was through the medicinal
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HerbShoppe
A one-stop-shop herbal Bulletin Board to place your buying requirement and availability offers for herbs and herbals extracts and herbal medicines.
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Credits: Envis.frlht.org.in, www.Ayurvedaconsultants.com, www.Himalyaherbalhealthcare.com, www.eol.org/pages/4175, http://plants.usda.gov/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki, www.Pfaf.org, |
Herb People
Experts actively involved in cultivation, collection and conservation of
medicinal and aromatic plants in India. |
Herb Almanac
A calendar of events, classes, tours, exhibits, meetings, and conventions. |
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