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Special Announcement Myanmar sets up herbal grassland to benefit habitual medicines Submitted by Mudassir Rizwan on Sun, 01 06 2008 - 11:46. International By Xinhua Yangon :

Myanmar has set up the first national herbal park in the recent capital of Nay Pyi Taw to arise herbal and medicinal plants, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Sunday. The herbal park is part of the government's efforts to defend and preserve the time-tested herbs from depletion and extinction and to keep alive the country's traditional system of medicines.

Over 20,000 herbal and remedial plants of over 700 species from some 10 states and divisions representing producing medicines used in treating diseases like cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hypertension, diabetes, malaria and tuberculosis are being grown in the 81-hectare park, the report said.

The government has urged the practitioners of routine medicines to strive for the promotion of the standard of the country's traditional medicine.

According to the trim authorities, Myanmar has untrue arrangements for the development of the traditional medicine in line with the locate standards, opening diploma track and practitioner courses to train skilled physicians in the field.

The government in January 2002 established the Myanmar Household University in Mandalay, the country's second largest city.

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