Experts from the Traditional Vanaushadhi Skilled Vaidya Sangh in Chhattisgarh will provide guidance and cooperation in running the country's first Centre of Studies in Indigenous Knowledge at Dr. Harisingh Gour University, Sagar, Madhya Pradesh.
A MoU has been signed between Vaidya Sangh and the University.
The Centre has been started in Sagar to provide the scientific validity of traditional knowledge-based medicinal system and conservation, promotion and development of rare and endangered species of forest medicinal plants.
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and Forest Minister Mohammad Akbar have congratulated the Vaidya Sangh for the achievement.
Lok Swastha Parampara Samwardhan Abhiyaan Bharat, National Coordinator Vaidya, Nirmal Awasthi, said the Centre will operate with Central government assistance.
Vaidyas from tribal-dominated Kanker and Kondagaon areas possess information regarding successful treatment of lumps and oral cancer.
Awasthi said that for the last four years, an analysis of traditional knowledge-based medicinal system was being done in the university under the guidance of Professor K.K.N. Sharma by inviting traditional Vaidyas of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
