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Medicinal plant garden at Tiruvanmiyur planned

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, JULY 31. A permanent medicinal plant garden will be created in Indian Medical Practitioners' Co-operative Pharmacy and Stores (IMCOPS) premises at Tiruvanmiyur, its president, Kumaradas, said here on Friday.

Talking to the presspersons, Dr.Kumaradas, said as part of the diamond jubilee celebrations, the garden would be created in an area of 4,000 sqft. More than 500 medicinal plants, which included a little over a dozen rare plants, found in the State would be exhibited in the garden,

The organisation produced about 800 medicines in all three Indian systems of medicine -- Ayurvedha, Siddha and Unani. IMPCOPS is also engaged in manufacturing a variety of century-old, proven traditional medicines in a reasonably modernised plant, employing sophisticated techniques under expert supervision, he said. The Society was registered under the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Societies Act of 1932 on April 6, 1944 and started its activities from September 12 in the same year, he said. When started with 400 Registered Medical Practitioners as its institutional members, the membership had grown to about 12,000 now, he said.

The organisation planned a two-day function on August 6 on the IMCOPS premises to commemorate the diamond jubilee. State Ministers and officials were expected to participate.

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