Making a case

The Patent Bill gives oral traditions document status

Scent of good business

Herbs spell commercial success for villages in Jowahar Valley

Trouble in Mexico

Mayans may lose traditional knowledge to a Us-funded project

Herbal cures to fight kala azar

Tamed for good

CITES ban forces India to hasten formulation of legislation to protect endangered species

Root therapy

Thirst for profits rises as disease spreads

Even as AIDS spreads throughout the world, Australians are determined to get their share of the profits from the use of a shrub that halts …

Working wonders with neem

There has recently been a flurry of international activity centred around the versatile neem.

Without a trace

Medicinal plant biodiversity is rapidly vanishing in India and the government has still to come up with a plan of action

Loss of the wild

Greed has taken a heavy toll on the wealth of herbs in India. Manufacturers of herbal products are cutting the very branch on which the industry …

Building bridges

Both allopathy and Indian systems of medicine can gain from each other, provided practitioners interact with an open mind

Perjury and other afflictions

While the market for herbal preparations is maturing, laws and regulations have failed to keep pace with it

India needs the science of the common people

It's a paradox that while the government is busy opening up the telecom sector to multinational companies, technocrat Sam Pitroda, perhaps the …

Bhotiya's show the way

Vanishing herbs

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

Extinction threat

Extinction threat

Cry neem

There is more to neem than fighting a patent

RAMPANT COLLECTION

Brazil

Cooking with kokum

Spice, fruit juice and now weight watchers' manna

Seeking shikimic

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

A date with the palm

Savvy Soumya Misra spends a day with Mahoba’s palm collectors to find out why a card touches a raw chord amongst them