Production from bo^th wild harvest and cultivation: The cross-border Swertia chirayita (Gentianaceae)trade.
Production from bo^th wild harvest and cultivation: The cross-border Swertia chirayita (Gentianaceae)trade.
- Journal of ethnoPharmacology, 225, p.42-52, 2018 .
Swertia chirayita is the most widely traded species in a genus of 150 species, many of which are used in traditional medicine. S. chirayita is used mainly in Ayurvedic and Tibetan systems of medicine and the homoeopathic system of medicine as well as in regional folk medicine. Primarily wild collected, with some cultivation. S. chirayita is traded as a medicinal substance and exported in the forms of dried whole plant or extract of whole plant individually and/or as active ingredients of Ayurvedic medicines. S. chirayita export valuations continue to make S. chirayita one of Nepal's highest foreign exchange earning medicinal plant species.
SWERTIA CHIRAYITA
CULTIVATION
ADULTERATION
SUPPLY CHAINS
CITES
Swertia chirayita is the most widely traded species in a genus of 150 species, many of which are used in traditional medicine. S. chirayita is used mainly in Ayurvedic and Tibetan systems of medicine and the homoeopathic system of medicine as well as in regional folk medicine. Primarily wild collected, with some cultivation. S. chirayita is traded as a medicinal substance and exported in the forms of dried whole plant or extract of whole plant individually and/or as active ingredients of Ayurvedic medicines. S. chirayita export valuations continue to make S. chirayita one of Nepal's highest foreign exchange earning medicinal plant species.
SWERTIA CHIRAYITA
CULTIVATION
ADULTERATION
SUPPLY CHAINS
CITES