The Ministry of Ayush has launched a campaign of distributing Ayush prophylactic medicines and written guidelines on diet and lifestyle.<\/span><\/p>\n Moreover, the National Medicinal Plants Board(NMPB) has also launched a national campaign to promote the cultivation of medicinal plants in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n A prophylactic is a medication or a treatment designed and used to prevent a disease from occurring.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Example: <\/b>A prophylactic hepatitis vaccine prevents the patient from getting hepatitis, while a prophylactic dental cleaning prevents tooth decay.<\/span><\/p>\n Campaign to Promote <\/b>cultivation of medicinal plants:<\/b><\/p>\n Under this campaign, cultivation of medicinal plants will be done on 75,000 hectares of land in the next year across the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The campaign has been started from Saharanpur in UP and Pune in Maharashtra.<\/span><\/p>\n It was established in 2000 under the Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha & Homoeopathy).<\/span><\/p>\n Aim: <\/b>To develop the medicinal plants sector through developing strong coordination between various ministries\/ departments\/ organizations for the implementation of policies\/programs on medicinal plants.<\/span><\/p>\n Source:<\/b> This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Ayush Ministry kickstarts campaign to distribute prophylactic medicines<\/b>\u201d<\/b> published in<\/span> PIB on 2nd September 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Ministry of Ayush has launched a campaign of distributing Ayush prophylactic medicines and written guidelines on diet and lifestyle. Moreover, the National Medicinal Plants Board(NMPB) has also launched a national campaign to promote the cultivation of medicinal plants in the country. What are Prophylactic medicines? A prophylactic is a medication… Continue reading Ayush Ministry kickstarts campaign to distribute prophylactic medicines<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704916213},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are Prophylactic medicines?<\/b><\/h5>\n
About National Medicinal Plants Board(NMPB):\u00a0<\/b><\/h5>\n