Expert wants students to bio-prospect plants
About 100 medicinal plants and 150 crude drugs from the medicinal plants were on display at the DG Vaishnav College on February 8 and 9. The exhibition, organised by the Department of Botany of the college, was inaugurated by Prof Usman Ali, Director, Centre for Traditional plants research. Plants that serve as an antidote to snake bite (Siriya nangai, Velaragu), anti-diabetic (Naaval and pappaya), anti-jaundice (Amla, semmai agathi) and anticancer(Nithya Kalyani) were on display.