Kunapajala – A boon to medicinal plant cultivators, its preparation and Efficacy in conservative cultivation of Rauvolfia serpentina

Abstract

Even though Ayurveda attained world attention Scarcity of medicinal plants is one of the main lacunas in the research and development of ayurvedic drugs, now a days we are lacking genuine drugs in the market because of deforestation and unscientific drug collection, so its highly needed to do conservative and scientific cultivation by implementing some of our ancient cultivation techniques ,In vriksha ayurveda we have got enough references regarding the ancient cultivation techniques and different types of natural manures one among them is kunapajala (liquid organic manure ) so here we are reviewing the preparation of kunapajala according to the reference and assessing the efficacy of the same in cultivation of and sarpagandha as it have been enlisted as red listed plant and is reported to be adultered commonly with R.tetraphylla .