Applied Aspect of Medicinal Plants for Commercial Uses of Shekhawati Region, Rajasthan | |
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( Volume 6 Issue 8,August 2020 ) OPEN ACCESS | |
Author(s): | |
DR. MUKESH KUMAR SHARMA | |
Abstract: | |
Rainy season is the best period of growth of medicinal plants and the collection is made in spring. This is done mostly by the forest-dwellers and tribals, particularly the in the tribal areas who sell them to the local contractors. Through them it reaches the local ‘Mandis’ (village markets) from where the big crude drug dealers procure them by auction. Earlier the ancestors of these Herbal vendors used to function as the local contractors and even today some of them do so. In the cities they mostly obtain the medicinal herbs from the Crude Drug dealers, and also utilise the locally available herbs. They are also particular about locality. Same medicinal herb growing in different climatic and soil conditions have different efficacy. For example the Asvagandha (Withania somnifera) growing in Nagaur district of Rajasthan has better medicinal value than any other plants of the some species growing in other localities of India. Thirty eight (38) dry specimens of crude medicinal plant parts were collected from the different stalls and hutments of the Herbal vendors during the course of study. While most kept common herbal drugs, some possessed specific ones which were costly. |
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