Herbal remedies
for more than half a century, the National Botanical Research Institute ( nbri ) in Lucknow has been doing pioneering work in the collection, study and conservation of the vast and varied floral diversity of India. With the entry of P Pushpangadan as its director, the institute is at the threshold of yet another significant venture: the production of herbal products for the world market. And this they hope to achieve by involving the participation of the rural communities.
Pushpangadan, former director of the Tropical Botanical and Garden Research Institute ( tbgri ) in Thiruvananthapuram, was instrumental in transporting a tribal medicine to treat stress from the depths of Kerala's rainforests to the medical stores of the world. The wonder drug, Arogyapacha, brought laurels for tbgri in 1998 and also set a precedent whereby for the first time in the world an indigenous community
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