Acquiring them from wild has its own disadvantages hence farming these medicinal plants with a buy back from pharmaceutical companies is indeed lucrative. Brahatrayee stand testimony to the fact that Dravyaguna (Concepts) formed an integral part of the science in understanding the mechanism of action of plants (food/medicine) on man.įarming: With increasing demand for Ayurveda as a healing science, there has been a dire need to acquire medicinal plants in large quantities as never before. Though termed as a discipline only during Nighantu period by Narahari, author of Raja Nighantu, the classical texts of Ayurveda, i.e. It is interesting to observe that the knowledge about plants is based on a sophisticated, indigenous knowledge category called Dravyaguna. But it was only in the period of the Ayurvedic Samhitas, that there were serious attempts in studying plants scientifically and systematically. In the course of evolution, long before, Jagdish Chandra Bose demonstrated the sign of life in plants by his scientific experiments, Vedic seers realized it in Chandogya Upanishad (6-11.1). A detailed account of the world's first symposium on medicinal plants is given in the first chapter of Vrihat Samhita and since 1600 B.C., the amount of literature on this subject is boundless. In India, the earliest mention of the use of medicinal plants is found in the Rigveda which was written between 4500-1600 B.C.
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