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Tulsi

• Wonder drug from tulsi extract may be your answer to cancer

  Ahmedabad: An extract from the ubiquitous household plant tulsi is found to protect one from harmful nuclear radiations—during a war situation or in the event of a nuclear reactor leak. The extracted phytochemicals from tulsi are now being turned into a drug at a Gujarat facility – Gujarat Liqui Pharmacaps Limited (GLPL) in Padra on the outskirts of Vadodara city.The drug will be India's indigenous defence against all kinds of radiation and even prove to be a boon for cancer patients to alleviate the side effects of radiotherapy treatment.

  • 21/02/2012

  • Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
  • • Tulsi
    • Radiation
    • Cancer
    • Herbal Medcine
    • Radiotherapy
    • Health Effects
    • Medical Research
    • Health
    • Gujarat

• Shivpuri farmers cultivate Tulsi - A Success Story

  Shivpuri : Taking advantage of the state government schemes and with their own efforts and hard work farmers of this district has given a unique identity in the field of farming to this district. Now several farmers of this district are taking interest to cultivate forest medicinal plants along with their traditional farming.

  • 12/05/2010

  • Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
  • • Agriculture
    • Horticulture
    • Tulsi
    • Farmers
    • Medicinal Plants
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Shivpuri (D)
    • Central Chronicle (Bhopal)

• Azamgarhs Healing Herb

  AFTER THE September 2008 ATS raid on Batla House and the Ahmedabad attack, most people have come to regard Azamgarh in eastern Uttar Pradesh as a

  • 27/02/2010

  • Tehelka (New Delhi)
  • • Tulsi
    • Farmers
    • Uttar Pradesh
    • Azamgarh (D)
    • Tehelka (New Delhi)
    • AP Singh

• Structural audit of 3 oldest dams soon

  Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will soon undertake a structural audit of the city

  • 25/02/2009

  • Indian Express (Mumbai)
  • • Powai
    • Dams
    • Tulsi
    • Floods
    • Municipal Corporations
    • Maharashtra
    • Mumbai

• Tulsi to insulate the Taj Mahal

  Lucknow: Tulsi, known for its medicinal qualities, will now help protect the Taj Mahal from environmental pollution. In an exercise being undertaken by the Uttar Pradesh Forest Department and the Lucknow-based Organic India, a million tulsi saplings will be planted near the marble mausoleum.

  • 05/02/2009

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Air Pollution
    • Tulsi
    • Afforestation
    • Uttar Pradesh
    • Agra (D)

• Tulsi on a global journey

  Alka Pandey Posted: Jan 30, 2009 at 2309 hrs IST Lucknow: It wasn't the whiff of money but faith in the small, inconspicuous plant in his courtyard that nudged Kailash Nath Singh, now 87, to venture into something unheard of more than a decade ago.

  • 30/01/2009

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Drought Prone Areas
    • Organic Farming
    • Tulsi
    • Farmers
    • Azamgarh (D)
    • Bundelkhand