Welcome to the Website of Envis Centre on Conservation of
Medicinal Plants situated at the Foundation for Revitalisation of Local
Heath Traditions, Bangalore. Environmental Information System (ENVIS) is
Supported by Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt. of India
Demand Study for Selected Medicinal Plants prepared by the Centre for Research, Planning and Action, projects the domestic demand for bark of Saraca asoca to be more than 10,000 tonnes for the year 2004-05. But as per assessments done, there is only limited wild populations of this species and cannot provide the required quantity of bark for the indigenous industry. Is there some other plant material that is being collected and utilised, instead of Saraca asoca?
The Query Desk of the
centre will serve individuals, students, forest managers and
organisations in solving their queries on medicinal plants which are
in trade
This online database has two parts - one that profiles
730 medicinal plants that are in all India trade and the other part a
nomenclature database of 7637 medicinal plant species found in India.
You can search the database using botanical and vernacular names or by name of the system of medicine in which the plant is used. You can also search this database using trade names of these medicinal plants.Tags have also been given to plants notified under CITES, plants notified under negative list by the Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India and plants that have been assigned an IUCN threat status..
Medicinal plant has traditionally occupied an important
position in the socio cultural, spiritual and medicinal arena of rural
and tribal lives of India.
