State AYUSH dept to look for ‘Sanjeevani Booti’

Dehradun, July 29

The state AYUSH Department has set up a committee of Ayurvedic experts which will soon embark on a search for the ‘Sanjeevani Booti’, a magical herb. According to the Ramayana, the ‘Sanjeevani Booti’had brought a fatally wounded Laxman back to life.

“The four-member committee will begin its work from the next month,” state AYUSH Minister Surendra Singh Negi has said.

He said there was a boom in the herbs market all over the world. The department intended to discover the ‘magical herb’ believed to have life-saving virtues.

“The Dronagiri range of the Himalayas will be scoured in search of the herb, the discovery of which is bound to be difficult. Even Lord Hanuman had not been able to identify it and had to uproot the entire Dronagiri mountain and take it all the way to Ravan’s Lanka,” the minister added.—PTI