Healing Heritage

Achievements & Impacts :

• More than 1530 Traditional Healers with network of 30 Vaidya Sangahs

• 472 Traditional Birth Attendants are trained

• 12 Community herbal gardens developed

• ‘Home Herbal Gardens’ devloped in 47 villages with 2578 households

• 71 NGOs are networking with this program

• 32 decentralised nurseries of medicinal plants for low risk cultivation

• 42 Green Health Clubs with membership of 919 school students

• Ex-situ conservation of the rare, endangered and threatened(RET) varieties of medicinal plants in Bio-diversity gardens created by Vaidya Sanghas. 174 such plants of rare, endangered and vulnerable ones are collected conserved.

• 3 in situ conservation areas promoted with collaboration with forest departments

• Common herbal treatments of 35 prevailing diseases found in the state are being documented.

• 267 nos. of plants have been documented

• 47 Community Knowledge registers are available

• 72 decentralized nurseries owned by the community enterprises.

• One Medicinal Plant conservation Park initiated in Similipal bio-sphere