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An exhibition on live medicinal plants naturally found in local environs and which have for generations been used to cure common ailments will be held in the State capital on Wednesday, October 17 at the Institute Menezes Braganza Hall.
Union AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik will inaugurate the exhibition at 9.30 am on Wednesday and the Education Department has permitted heads of aided and unaided educational institutions to encourage their students to visit the expo in a bid to up awareness of the medicinal value of naturally available plants.
The day-long exhibition, according to its organizers, will attempt to popularize the science of medicinal plants, especially in the young minds of school and college-going youth.
Open to all, the exhibition is a joint initiative of the Ayurvedic Natural Health Centre Pvt. Ltd, (ANHC) Goa and the Lions Club International Dist. 317B and is the fruit of a dedicated team of Ayurveda professionals of the ANHC who worked over several months to gather local medicinal plants available from different regions of Goa, according to Bruno S Fernandes.
Fernandes, who is the promoter of ANHC, said the uses and methods of the medicinal plants will be highlighted in the form of posters and its relevant details in Sanskrit, Hindi and Marathi.
The medicinal faculty of ANHC Pvt. Ltd, will be available at the exhibition venue throughout the day and will educate as well as answer queries from the audiences to enhance knowledge of the medicinal plants and their healing properties.
The exhibition aims to educate school children and others about the value of using medicinal plants naturally found in neighbourhoods in Goa and their potential to prevent certain illness and ailments.
It also aims to motivate the public to set up medicinal plant gardens in their backyards, Fernandes added.
Speaker of the Goa legislative assembly, Dr Pramod Sawant, Dr Joy Pereira MD. Ayurveda consultant at GAM and RC Shiroda, Monica Sawant, Dist. Governor of Lions Club, Lillian E. Fernandes president of the Host Lions Club, will grace the inaugural, Fernandes added.
