Thanks all for support. Let me share one interesting story. Please see this beautiful image.
http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20p?see=I_PAO9948&res=640 Now the pain!! Exactly in this location there were 52 villages. Now submerged due to construction of dam. I was informed about a Traditional Healer living in one of these villages and having expertise in treatment of Sickle Cell Anaemia at all stages. He was growing useful herbs in this Badi. After dam construction no one knows whereabouts of this Traditional Healer. I took interest in his search. After efforts of many months I found a senior villagers who was fast friend of the Healer. He was also not aware of his present address. Based on his memory from local artist we prepared sketch of not only the Healer but also his family members. I prepared tens of scanned copies and distributed to the contacts throughout the state. I received many calls but we failed to locate him. Very recently I got a call saying that one similar person is living in Balaghat region. I will try to visit the place in coming days. The Healer was using Medicinal Rice as part of his treatment. During survey I got success in getting seeds of this Medicinal Rice. The growers are growing it as traditional rice and not at all aware of its medicinal properties. Many of them are growing it for their workers as wages considering it as low quality rice. I tried to published information about it in local newspaper. In Chhattisgarh Indira Gandhi Agricultural University is maintaining germplasm of plus 20,000 rice collected from different parts of the state. The newspaper correspondent contacted the in-charge of germplasm. The concerned scientist checked the list and the name of this traditional rice was not there. The newspaper correspondent refused to publish my work. I was suggesting the state government to conserve this traditional rice and use it for the patients. But I was ignored. Back to the Healer. His friend believes that the miraculous herbs were in his Badi and he failed to shift it well in time and submergence took place. May be now he is not practcing this knowledge. But I am hopeful. regards Pankaj Oudhia On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:28 PM, tanay bose <[email protected]> wrote: > All the Best Pankaj Ji > Tanay > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:03 PM, nabha meghani <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Pankaj ji, >> somehow i missed your mail. >> Good luck and take care! >> Nalini >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "arjunan" <[email protected]> >> To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 5:27 AM >> Subject: [efloraofindia:45653] Re: Hoping to meet you all in New Year 2011 >> >> >> Dear Pankaj ji, >> >> You are truly an inspiration ! Take care & regards >> >> On Aug 26, 1:15 pm, Pankaj Oudhia <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for your suggestion. At the start of this survey I was in forest >>> with >>> ten Traditional Healers in search of medicinal insect on wild Curcuma, >>> suddenly few people with arms emerged from thick bush and started asking >>> question. The Healers tried to explain the reason for visit. I was beaten >>> and nearly lost one tooth. The Healers continued and finally convinced >>> them >>> that I am mere researcher. >>> >>> It is old saying that every thing have brighter side. I was in critical >>> condition. The Healers treated me with the herbs available in >>> surroundings. >>> Hence, I got new information. ;) >>> >>> I am in touch with over 10,000 Healers in my state and thousands in other >>> states. In general, I face less problem but still got injuries due to >>> this >>> issue not less than ten times. >>> >>> As you know, whatever I have written or done, is from self expense. I am >>> freelancer and never took single paisa from any funding organization. >>> Self >>> expense limits the work to great extent. >>> >>> regards >>> >>> Pankaj Oudhia >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Pankaj Kumar <[email protected] >>> >wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> > Whenever you go inside the forest, go to some village, first thing you >>> > should do is to advertise that you are a simple guy looking for >>> > medicinal plants. Thats how I used to work in Jharkhand Forests. Go to >>> > the local market, sit with the local people and start talking to >>> > anyone around about where to find some particular simple but popular >>> > plant names. Asking about popular plant helps you a lot because you >>> > tend to get positive replies and people tend to help you. All this >>> > naxal groups have local informants at such places who keeps an eye on >>> > non natives. Once they know that you are not going to harm them, then >>> > its good for you. >>> > My best wishes for you. >>> > Regards >>> > Pankaj >>> >>> > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Pankaj Oudhia < >>> [email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>> > > Thanks Mani ji. The survey is not in full swing due to on-going > > >>> conflict >>> > in >>> > > forests of Chhattisgarh but I am trying visit the forests frequently. >>> >>> > > regards >>> >>> > > Pankaj Oudhia >>> >>> > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:35 AM, mani nair <[email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>> >>> > >> Pankaj ji Wish you all the best in your endeavour. May God bless you >>> > and >>> > >> give the people an early recovery from the disease. >>> > >> Regards, >>> > >> Mani. >>> >>> > >> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Muthu Karthick <[email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>> >>> > >>> Have a good experience Pankajji. 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