WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

Juluri Krishna Dutta Tejaswi*, Dr. R. Govinda Rajan

ABSTRACT

For the past 1000 years or so in India, Asia and other parts of the world where the Hinduism is followed, the generations have been brought up listening and learning to the Hindu Epic “The Ramayana.” In the Ramayana, there was description of a „magical herb? called as “Sanjeevani Booti” or “Life giving herb” found in Indian Himalayas. It was believed that this magical herb have unique property of „bioluminescence? for its easy identification and a “panacea” against all known and unknown diseases, which can give life even to dying or unconscious person. In present paper, we have tried to explain the botanical existence along with the medicinal properties of this wonder herb. It contains a variety of secondary metabolites such as Alkaloids, Flavonoids etc due to which it can be used for many activities like anti-oxidants, anti-inflammatory etc. So it is important to explore more and more about this wonder hound in the epic Ramayana.