World Ayurveda Congress Will See Inauguration of Garden With Over 350 Medicinal Herbs.
October 19th, 2006 by ram
Publication: Express News Service
Date: 15 october 2006
Pune: Apart from a state-of-the-art botanical garden, Pune University will now also house a full-fledged ayurvedic garden. Replete with over 350 medicinal plants and herbs including Adulsa, Rudraksh, Ashvagandha, and Bramhi, the 1.5-acre land has been developed especially on the occasion of the 2nd World Ayurveda Congress to be hosted at the University from November 5 to 12.
“The plants have been cultivated using greenhouse, tissue culture and wild techniques, and the work began in June,” said Vaidya Parshuram Vaidya Khadiwale, whose institute Vaidya Khadiwale Vaidyak Sanshodhan Sanstha’s Gurukul has worked on the project along with the Department of Ayurveda, UoP.
During the Congress, the garden will host a ‘Lok Adaalat’, where Ayurveda experts will answer queries from the general public. Moreover, through practical demonstrations and audio-visuals, experts will show people the procedure in which ‘Bhasma’, the metal component in Ayurvedic medicines is refined and processed and will also show them actual laboratory reports certifying the safety of these compounds.
“This is significant in the light of recent reports by American researchers that ayurvedic medicines are unsafe due to their high heavy metal content,” says Dr Yogesh Bhosale, who will carry out the demonstrations at the congress. After the congress gets over, the garden will be managed by the Pune University and will be thrown open to researchers and students, who can take study tours to learn about these rare medicinal species. “Even the general public will have the opportunity to learn about how these different kinds of medicinal plants grow,” said Khadiwale.
Apart from rare species like Rudraksh, Shisam, Naagchafa, Arjun and Samudraphal, there will also be opportunities to experiment with cultivation of exotic species like Irani Manjisht, Jyeshtamadh and more.
The garden has been named `Mahamana Vaidya Shankar Daajishastra Pade’, in memory of the Ayurveda specialist Shankar Daajishastra. The official inauguration of the garden will take place on Thursday by Forest Minister Babanrao Pachpute and Vanraai founder, Mohan Dharia.
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