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Article: Herbal ESSENCE ; From the seedy craft of quacks and the mainstay of unlettered patients, ayurveda has become a lifestyle option on the way to becoming another global export like yoga
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- December 31, 2007
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Call it serendipity. Earlier this year, when Ravi Prasad,
executive director, Himalaya Global Holdings, visited Novo Sibrisk
in Siberia, he noticed little kiosks outside the airport selling
different products. They were also selling Himalaya products. Back
in the 1930s, a young man called M. Manal spotted wild elephants in
Burma being fed a certain drug to calm them down. He discovered the
herb contained anti-hypertensive properties. After years spent
learning about herbs from local healers, he introduced Serpina, the
world's first anti-hypertensive drug in 1934. Manal's aim was
simple: to bring ayurveda--the ancient but neglected science of a
five thousand-year-old civilisation--on par ...
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