'You cannot balance an economy by unbalancing human lives'

Development economist Sir Richard Jolly has been Principal Coordinator of  UNDP's Human Development Report. He is also Chairman of the …

RAMPANT COLLECTION

Vanishing herbs

Many varieties of medicinal plants and flowers in Darjeeling are facing extinction

SOUTH AFRICA

CHINA

Lab's labour lost

Products designed by premier scientific institutions fail to find the pulse of the market

Tried and tested

Traditional medical and agricultural practices, usually dismissed as unscientific, are regaining favour, with some help from Honeybee -- a …

Bad Medicine

First there were the quacks. Then came the mass manufacturers of substandard herbal drugs and cosmetics. Cashing in on the goodwill of …

A multi-purpose plant

From providing cure for stomach ailments to being an antidote for poisoning , the Jatropha Curcas is priceless

Little boxes of herbs

SUMANA NARAYANAN finds a 125-year-old shop selling herbal medicines in the lanes of Chennai

Tried and (lab)tested

Bengal varsity set to analyse and authenticate herbal drugs

Right medicine?

Doubts are raised over the efficacy of two herbal medicines for asthma

Herbal remedies

A new venture makes a foray into the world herbal market

Growing killer

As the menace of AIDS spreads in India, there is an interest in traditional cures

Home remedies

Right from the backyard

Written word protects

Registers can help preserve the traditional knowledge of India's healers

How Adivasis of one Jharkhand village are trying to preserve ethnomedicine

With ‘civilisation’ and ‘modernity’ having made inroads into India’s tribal areas, its heritage of traditional …

Money at last

The Kani tribals finally get their dues

Risky remedy

UK prohibits sale of herbal medicine with harmful side-effects

Wisdom roots

Traditional cures back in vogue

Ancient health care systems such as ayurveda are gaining popularity once again as people become wary of allopathy and the hazards it involves.

"There can be no development without women"

REACHING Doongri, a picturesque village perched 1,750 m above sea level in the Pindar valley in Chamoli district, is a daunting task. The nearest …

PATENT TROUBLES

Yar Tsa Gumba

A miraculous mushroom, over-exploited, is on the brink of extinction

Pickle, tea and a spice