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Traditional knowledge of medicinal orchids in different parts of India

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Title Traditional knowledge of medicinal orchids in different parts of India
 
Creator Biswas, Siddhartha Sankar
Kalaivanan, N S
Pal, Ram
Alam, B K
Ngangom, N M
Natta, Suman
 
Subject Disease
Medicine
Orchids
Traditional knowledge
 
Description 452-463
Traditional knowledge of medicines gets transferred from generation to generation among the tribal people verbally.
Since recent past some ethnobotanists started scientific documentation of it. Beside other plants, orchids also kept their deep
footprint in traditional medicines. India is a country of orchid richness with 1300 orchid species, out of those approximately
250 orchid species are being used in tribal, Ayurvedic and Unani system of medicine. In spite of having high medicinal
potential, very often orchids are ignored as medicinal herbs, and emphasized as ornamental plants in India. Use of orchids in
the field of medicine can draw a lot of economic benefits to the drug development industries and socioeconomic benefits to
the orchid farmers. For that a compiled source of information about traditional knowledge on medicinal potential of orchids
can be a good source of reference. The present review can serve the purpose.
 
Date 2024-05-22T09:20:37Z
2024-05-22T09:20:37Z
2024-05
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/63949
https://doi.org/10.56042/ijtk.v23i5.11042
 
Language en
 
Relation Int Cl.24: A61K 36/00
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR,India
 
Source IJTK Vol.23(5) [May 2024]