ASPECTS OF GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES WITH REFERENCES TO ENDANGERED SPECIES “GUGGUL” (COMMIPHORA WIGHTII ARN. BHANDARI)
Dr. Neelima Sharma* and Ashish Bharillya
ABSTRACT
The plant Commiphora wightii (Arn.) Bhandari is a source of Indian bedellium, a oleo-gum resin obtained from incision of the bark.[1] The resin is largely used in indigenous medicine as incense and as fixative in perfumery.[2] It is very potent anti-arthritic, ant obesity, anti-inflammatory and hypolipidaemic drug used in many Ayurvedic formulations.[3,4,5,6,7,8,9] It is now classified as endangered by IUCN due to its overexploitation.[10,11] Therefore in the present scenario when many of our indigenous medicinal plants are going in the list of endangered species, conservation and development of better agro techniques are the need of time. Moreover method and season of harvesting and post harvesting handling etc. are described in the full paper.
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