Ayurvedic Relevance of Pansari Herbal Formulations Practiced in Khetri Region: A Field-Based Analysis

Dr. Mukesh Kumar Sharma

Ayurveda, Pansari, Khetri, herbal formulations, ethnomedicine, traditional medicine, field analysis.

Pansari herbal formulations in Khetri display rich Ayurvedic relevance. This field analysis investigates traditional practices, pharmacological properties, and community health impacts, highlighting ethnomedicinal diversity and Ayurvedic principles shaping local herbal healthcare systems . In broad sense, Ayurvedic or medicinal useful plants for mankind welfare is “Applied Medical Phytogeography or Ayurveda” whereas the study of direct relationship between the man and plants is Ethnobotany or Ayurveda. It is relevant to the medicinal plants because the man has been learning about both the useful and the harmful aspects of the plants by trail and error methods of since ancient times. Some human societies of today have inherited this ancient knowledge through folklore, and some still depend totally or largely on that knowledge and practice. The information on early and indigenous medicinal uses of plants in our country, state and region is vast and widely scattered. Organised efforts to bring this data together, or to study the surviving folklore among the primitive human societies of today have been rather scanty, or in other words to say not so easy task. The study of human disease ecology and the Applied Medical Phytogeography (Ayurveda) or in other words to say the Ethnobiology (Ethnobotany and Ethnozoology) has now become a critical need of the time. Actually, the Applied Medical Phytogeography or Ethnobiology which records and documents the age old knowledge and wisdom of the traditional people about the extremely useful properties of diverse plants and animal species (Biodiversity) is now emerging as holistic segment of ecology. There has been increasing interest in recent years in Ayurveda or Medical Phytogeography or Ethnobotany mainly because of the renewed interest in traditional herbal medicine, particularly the “tribal medicine”. The revival of interest in natural drugs, especially those derived from plants, started in the last decades mainly because of the widespread belief that “green medicines”, are healthier and safer than the synthetic ones.