8.QUALITY OF MEDICINALLY IMPORTANT BAL HARAD (TERMINALIA CHEBULA) FRUITS IN THE MARKET OF CENTRAL INDIA BY MANISH MISHRA AND P. C. KOTWAL
Abstract
Adulteration or substitution in medicinal plant raw material is taking heavy toll on the credibility
of the Ayurvedic drug market. The selected district Katni is a major trading centre of non timber
forest products including medicinal plants. The objective of the study is to determine the
anomaly in the small harad (Terminalia chebula.) market sample and adulteration problems
existing in the local market. Prevalent malpractices adopted by various stakeholders in the study
area are mixing of broken fruits of baheda(T. bellerica) and big size Harad, coloring of fruits etc.
The major causes of adulteration found in the market are more demand from Ayurvedic
industries, scarcity of raw material and increase in volume of raw material by adopting various
malpractices etc. Paper suggests various ways and means to combat quality problem in the raw
small harad trade.
KEY WORDS: Adulteration, Harvesting, Market, Quality, Small Harad.
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