Conservation of Rare Endangered and Threatened (RET) Medicinal Plants of Western Ghats
Pranay Kumar*
Department of Spices and Plantation Crops, Faculty of Horticulture, BCKV, Mohanpur, West Bengal, India
Anusree Anand
Department of Post-Harvest Technology, College of Horticulture, UHS, Bagalkot, Karnataka, India
DOI: NIL
Keywords: Conservation, endangered, medicinal plant
Abstract
In the process of rapid modernization and advancement of medical sciences, partially documented or undocumented knowledge on ethno-medicine began to deplete drastically. The Western Ghats is very rich in its medicinal wealth. The RET medicinal plants are rare, endangered and threatened forest species, that are grown and multiplied naturally in restricted areas. These RET medicinal plant species play a very important role as folk remedies against many diseases. It is important to conserve the RET medicinal plants in its natural environment or cultivating it in favourable environments and to bring the information in various sources into one roof.
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