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The six-month offline programme draws on traditional Ayurvedic concepts including Garbhini Paricharya, or antenatal care, Sutika Paricharya, covering postnatal care, and Garbhadhana Vidhi, which focuses on pre-conceptional care. The curriculum combines these principles with practical maternal-support skills intended for use in healthcare and community settings.
The accepted botanical name is Moringa oleifera Lam., and the plant belongs to the family Moringaceae. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew recognises the species as native from northeastern Pakistan to northwestern India and records its extensive use for food and medicine.
Its bark, leaves, fruits, roots and latex have a long history of medicinal use. Classical Ayurvedic literature particularly values its astringent and cooling qualities. Traditional applications include wounds, excessive bleeding, inflammatory conditions, disorders of the mouth and certain gastrointestinal and skin conditions. Ayurvedic literature also places Ashvattha among plants used for controlling excessive bodily secretions.
Under the strengthened requirements, manufacturers will have to ensure that products containing this fixed-dose combination carry a clear warning stating that they must not be used in children below four years of age. The warning is expected to appear prominently on product labels, package inserts and relevant promotional material.
Ayurvedic literature identifies Kadali with Musa paradisiaca. Modern botanical taxonomy usually writes the cultivated plantain complex as Musa × paradisiaca L., recognising it as a hybrid associated with Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew currently accepts Musa × paradisiaca as a hybrid within the Musaceae family.
Ayurveda knows this plant as Parijata, botanically identified as Nyctanthes arbor-tristis L. It belongs to the Oleaceae family. Ayurvedic institutions record its flowers, leaves and bark among the parts used medicinally.
Palandu is botanically identified as Allium cepa L. It belongs to the family Amaryllidaceae in modern botanical classification, although older botanical and Ayurvedic references often place it under Liliaceae. Kew’s Plants of the World Online recognises Allium cepa as an accepted species and describes it as a bulbous plant known primarily through cultivation.
Jati, identified in much Ayurvedic literature with Jasminum grandiflorum L., is valued especially for its leaves. Traditional practice associates the plant with wound care, oral health and several skin conditions. Modern research has also begun examining some of these applications.
Cancer treatment often damages healthy cells along with cancer cells, causing significant associated adverse effects and side effects. This has created a need for targeted therapies that remain inactive in normal tissues while it travels through the body and become activated specifically at tumor sites.
Known botanically as Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Japa belongs to the Malvaceae family. Modern botanical databases such as Kew currently treat the cultivated plant as Hibiscus × rosa-sinensis. Indian medicinal-plant references continue to widely use the name Hibiscus rosa-sinensis.
