Abstract

The present study reports prevalent diseases among the communities living in Himalayan region and efforts for low cost preventive and curative healthcare services. The main emphasis is to promote awareness about the sustainable use of local easily available surrounding medicinal plants and to protect and conserve them in nature through cultivation. Since these plants are not found to occur in all climatic zones, some are procured from the raw drug market. This communication includes a brief general classification of women, children and general diseases of old persons (Male & Female) and brief contents including plant parts use in formulations, their approximate proportion, fixed dose and period of taking. These formulations are prepared in the presence of Vaidyas and experts of plant identification according to public need and positive health of an individual. The method of preparing medicines is very simple - churn powder.

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