{"id":74056,"date":"2020-12-22T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T05:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=74056"},"modified":"2021-01-02T13:12:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:42:34","slug":"himalayan-trillium-an-endangered-common-himalayan-herb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/himalayan-trillium-an-endangered-common-himalayan-herb\/","title":{"rendered":"Himalayan trillium, an endangered common Himalayan herb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/overexploitation-long-life-cycle-have-endangered-a-common-himalayan-herb\/article33373173.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>\u00a0Himalayan trillium (Trillium govanianum), a common herb of the Himalayas was declared \u2018endangered\u2019 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74057\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/shutterstock_1507259849.jpg?resize=300%2C169&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/shutterstock_1507259849-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/shutterstock_1507259849-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/shutterstock_1507259849-scaled.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/shutterstock_1507259849-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/shutterstock_1507259849-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/shutterstock_1507259849-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/shutterstock_1507259849-scaled.jpg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/shutterstock_1507259849-scaled.jpg?w=2250&amp;ssl=1 2250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Himalayan Trillium:\u00a0<\/strong>It is a common herb of the Himalayas. It is often locally called as Nagchatri.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vegetation:\u00a0<\/strong>It is found in temperate and sub-alpine zones of the Himalayas at an altitude from 2,400-4,000 metres above sea level.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uses<\/strong>: The herb has been used in traditional medicine to cure diseases like dysentery, wounds, skin boils, inflammation, sepsis, as well as menstrual and sexual disorders.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Found in<\/strong>: India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan have been home to this species.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India:\u00a0<\/strong>In India, it is found in four states only- Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim, and Uttarakhand.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Concerns:\u00a0<\/strong>In recent years, the plant has become one of the most traded commercial plants of the Himalayan region, due to its high medicinal quality.<\/li>\n<li><em>Recently, its value has increased manifold as experiments have shown it is a source of steroidal saponins and can be used as an\u00a0<strong>anti-cancer and anti-aging agent.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Hindu News:\u00a0Himalayan trillium (Trillium govanianum), a common herb of the Himalayas was declared \u2018endangered\u2019 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN). Facts: Himalayan Trillium:\u00a0It is a common herb of the Himalayas. It is often locally called as Nagchatri. Vegetation:\u00a0It is found in temperate and sub-alpine zones of the Himalayas at an altitude&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/himalayan-trillium-an-endangered-common-himalayan-herb\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Himalayan trillium, an endangered common Himalayan herb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":75026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1316],"class_list":["post-74056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public","tag-env_2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Himalayan-trillium-an-endangered-common-Himalayan-herb.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700496158},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74056","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}