India's Medical Heritage
Published: Apr 15, 2019
Photo: Prasad
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.
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