Digitizing Medicinal Plants

Priorities

  1. Prior permission and approval from NBC
  2. Intimation to NITM
  3. Seeking funding and final Go.
  4. Concept paper and  proposal

Content supposedly includes:

  1. Project need and objectives
  2. National Interest and Benefit Sharing
  3. Hosting Institute and Implementation
  4. Contents:
    • TK related to PGRs and AGRs
    • gSo-Ba Rig-Pa and Ayurveda in Bhutanese Context
    • Bhutanese medication
    • Folk medicine
    • Local healers and their medications, contact add.
    • Traditional Bath
    • Folklores/tales
    • Ethnotales
    • Virtual Herbaria
    • Ethnophenology
    • Ethnography and Artifacts
    • Traditional Cropping System

Important links:

The Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

Collection of medicinal plants