Soils on the hills of granite gneiss near Ranchi also support medicinal plants and flowers.
They are Orchid, Zingiber purpureum and Asparagus racemosus. By Dr. Nitish Priyadarshi Geologist. Email: nitish.priyadarshi@gmail.com Hill near Bundu on Ranchi-Jamshedpur road. Introduction: Medicinal plants have been identified and used throughout human history. Plants have the ability to synthesize a wide variety of chemical compounds that are used to perform important biological functions, and to defend against attack from predators such as insects, fungi and herbivorous mammals. At least 12,000 such compounds have been isolated so far; a number estimated to be less than 10% of the total. The use of herbs to treat disease is almost universal among non-industrialized societies, and is often more affordable than purchasing expensive modern pharmaceuticals. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 80 percent of the population of some Asian and African countries presently use herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care. A large amount of archaeological eviden...