Satawari (Asparagus racemosus) a plant used in traditional Indian medicine, is commonly found in the Himalayan region. A forest official displaying the freshly harvested root at Don forest East Champaran, Bihar.
Abstract: The Indian medical heritage flows in two streams—folk and scholarly. The first is an immensely diverse, ecosystem specific, community based tradition and the other a codified one, yet both are symbiotically related with around 6,581 medicinal botanicals.
The author is Vice Chancellor, Trans-Disciplinary University, Bangalore. darshan.shankar@tdu.edu.in. The article should be cited as Shankar, D. 2019. India’s medical heritage, Geography and You, 19 (15): 14-19.
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