MEDICINAL PLANTS OF BIHAR AND ITS NEIGHBORING REGION WHICH NEEDS ATTENTION FOR THEIR CONSERVATION
Sanjeev Kumar Ambasta*, Seema Kumari, Amresh Kumar Yadav, Indrani Trivedi, Birendra Prasad,
Upendra Kishore Sinha
ABSTRACT
The study shows that herbal medicine have great prospect in health care worldwide. It is reported that 25% of
prescribed drug for conventional healthcare were derived from ethno medicine. But in present medicinal plants
facing threats due to depletion of natural resources as an impact of growing population size, urbanization and
climate change. The major challenges on traditional medicine and medicinal plant is lack of data on seriously
threatened and endangered medicinal plant species. The other challenges include inadequate and conflicting
guidelines on management and utilization of medicinal plant or natural resources. So effort for conservation of
medicinal plants has been suggested. The ex-situ and in-situ conservation of medicinal plants in Bihar is a great
step towards the conservation of medicinal plants as well as other species. The conservation in all the agroclimatic
zones would be a long way for conservation of biodiversity. These include creation of awareness of
medicinal plants in healthcare by training programmes at local community level. It is essential to conserve
medicinal plant through sustainable harvesting of medicinal plant resources.
Keywords: Ethno medicine, Urbanization, Climate change, Threatened, Sustainable harvesting.
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