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Medicinal Plants of India
First Online: February 08,2007
Page Last Updated: December 21,2007
India's rich bio-diversity includes a large number of plants with medicinal properties. The abundances of such plants has been one among the factors that helped the country to develop its own systems of healing
like the Ayurveda and the Siddha many hundreds of years ago.
Here is a collection of stamps featuring the medicinal plants of India.
K.L. Kamat/Kamat's Potpourri
Guggulu Tree -- Comniphora wighitii
Detail from an Indian Postal Stamp
K.L. Kamat/Kamat's Potpourri
The Amla Plant -- Emblica officinalis
Detail from an Indian Postal Stamp
K.L. Kamat/Kamat's Potpourri
The Brahmi Plant -- Bacopa monnieri
Detail from an Indian Postal Stamp
K.L. Kamat/Kamat's Potpourri
Ashwagandha - Withania somnifera
Detail from an Indian Postal Stamp
See Also:
Kamat's Potpourri 
India Reference Database Medicinal Plants of India