Indian Medicinal Plants Database has been developed by Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT) with financial support from National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), and it has been hosted on NMPB’s Portal for appropriate use by the practitioners of Indian Systems of Medicine, herbal industries, scholars, researchers, resource managers as well as policy makers. It incorporates 7263 botanical names of Indian medicinal plants and these botanical names have been correlated to more than 1,50,000 vernacular names in ten different languages of India. It also includes > 5000 authentic images of Indian medicinal plants duly linked to the specific botanical entities.
The medicinal plant species included in the database have been compiled and arranged under the six Indian Systems of Medicine namely Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Homeopathy, Sowa-Rigpa and Folk.
Thus inventory of medicinal plants, used in each of these systems of medicine, has been compiled and incorporated into the database for electronic search. Within each system of medicine one can browse the data for a specific botanical name or vernacular name. Each of the botanical names has proper author citation and linkage with botanical synonyms where ever applicable.
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