Nature’s bounty to boost immunity at a Greater Noida village

A look at 10 medicinal plants known to enhance immunity and strengthen brain power

Bitter bounty: Why karela leaves can be a good harvest off your kitchen garden

Bitter gourd leaves not only have medicinal and nutritive properties, they can be added to tasty recipes as well 

New database finds 960 new ‘druggable’ components in Indian medicinal plants

The database was created by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, to facilitate drug discovery

Kumatiya, part of regular Rajasthani diet, has health and environmental benefits

Like a poor cousin, kumatiya is not as well known as ker or sangri, but without it, panchkuta would not be the same

A flower which can treat skin cancer and prevent greying of hair

Used for worship and hair colouring, modern entrepreneurs have found new uses for the hibiscus flower

Mountains of Sanjeevani

The Uttarakhand government's initiative to spend Rs 25 crore on an elusive mythical herb should trigger a wider quest to identify, document and …

Turmoil in the park

Book>> Democratizing Nature: Politics, Conservation, and Development in India by Ashwini Chhatre and Vasant Saberwal OUP 2006

Desert blooms

Halophytes - plants growing on saline soil - could be India's Answer to the problems of salt desert and wasteland reclamation, besides Being …

Implement the Biological Diversity Act in its true spirit

It is high time the Centre and states did so. It would save India from a number of avoidable problems

Sweet ’n’ sour

Moringa and tamarind are popularly known as the trees of life for Indians. Moringa is in fashion as the world eyes India to feed its frenzy for …

Satellite Maps Forests

Jhum farming destroys forest cover in northeast India

Mint relieves pain, acts as food preservative

Branding from origin

The French system of orgin labelling can be adopted for Indian medicine

Nuts over betel

Jatropha fever

Why is the Chhattisgarh government promoting a poisonous and invasive plant?

Odisha fisherman sells rare fish for Rs 1.1 lakh

A merchant bought the 28-kg Ghol fish, known for its medicinal qualities, for Rs 3,940 a kg

The Kani learning

How benefit-sharing between a research institute and the Kani tribe went awry

The secret garden

Want to know about a lost variety of rice or a cure to asthma? Answers lie in the notebooks of schoolchildren and women of the Sundarbans and …

Science and Technology - Briefs

We are all consuming a deadly cocktail of medicine residue

Reports suggest such is the medicine residue in water bodies that fish is changing character; oral contraceptive residue makes them ‘…

INDIA

Paan loses flavour

Iconic paan no more appeals to farmers, traders and common people. They say the contagious spread of chewing tobacco, especially gutkha, is fast …

Making money through herbs in Himachal

Medicinal plants can improve the fortunes of state's rural poor

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 …

COVID-19: Experts look at mushrooms for employment, immunity concerns

The Directorate of Mushroom Research in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan announced release of four new high-yielding strains of mushrooms recently