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Workshop on herbal remedies

BERHAMPUR: A two-day workshop organised in the city to promote age-old herbal domestic remedies for common ailments among rural families concluded on Wednesday.

A group of registered and unregistered practitioners of Indian systems of medicine and homeopathy in rural areas took part in this workshop. This workshop was organised by the AYUSH department of the Central Health Ministry with the help of Citizens’ Association for Rural Development (CARD). Deputy Director of Unani department of the State, L. Samiullah and several other senior Ayurveda and homeopathy doctors attended this workshop as resource persons.

The participants of this workshop on Wednesday went on a field visit to the Kaviraj Krushna Chandra Tripathy Sharma Ayurvedic College, Ankushpur for practical display of medicinal herbs at the herbal garden of the institute.

The participants were told how with time the age old grandma’s remedies were being forgotten. People have started to use medicines without consultation of doctors. Use of high potency medicines including antibiotics for small ailments without consultation of physicians is at times causing serious problems. Mr Samiullah said even the rural public have lost their knack to identify medicinal plants and herbs in their periphery, which can prove to be great help in their health care. Even vegetables and spices in kitchen like papaya, garlic, onion, cumin seeds, pudina, ginger, carrot etc have great medicinal properties. Common herbs like marigold leaves can be used to stop heavy bleeding from a wound. Medicinal properties of neem, amla and tulsi are well known.

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