Project protects age-old wisdom from theft

  • 11/01/2006

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)

In a drafty government institute, Nighat Anjum reads from a dog-eared textbook on traditional Indian medicine and acquaints herself with the miracle fruit known as aamla, which is said to be useful in treating heart palpitations, immune disorders, bed-wetting and memory lapses. The 27-year-old physician enters its properties in a database that eventually will contain more than 100,000 such traditional remedies