AVAILABILITY  
 fragrant plant uncooked  
cloth are nonetheless accumulated from the sources, tha t is  
forests, thru the woodland contractors using nearby or  
tribal human beings is collectors. Sometimes the uncooked cloth  
comes from the cultivated sources, this is the drug forms  
maintained through the growers of medicinal herbs.

SUPPLY  
In the traditiona l markets of India maximum of the  
medicinal and fragrant vegetation or crude pills (roots, stem,  
wood, bark, leaves, flowers, seeds, fruits, complete vegetation  
etc.) are treated with the aid of using conventional natural crude drug dealers  
usually called Pansaris withinside the nort h and  
Pachamarunna Kada withinside the South. The crude pills are  
bought below the ayurvedic unani, Siddha or neighborhood names.  
The investors have were given their personal everyday providers. The  
names and addresses of such providers are saved as trade  
secrets, specially once they address the fabric that  
comes fro the forests. The shops / enterprise residence s  
managing medicinal plant fabric are positioned in almost  
all metropolis and towns in India, a few villages additionally have such  
shops. The massive enterprise homes are withinside the foot hill  
towns/citie s and Delhi, Amritsar, Lucknow, Kanpur,  
Bombay, Trichur, Bangalore, Madras and Calcutta.  
While ordering the medicinal plant substances care wishes to  
be taken for the authenticity of the fabric. The first-rate of the  
medicinal plant fabric is commonly excessive whilst those have been  
derived from the cultivated vegetation of general varieties.  
AREA AND PRODUCTION

In India, only a few tries were made for the  
marketplace surveilance and evaluation of data. Consequently  
little records is to be had on area, manufacturing and  
intake of the medicinal flora and their various  
merchandise and derivatives.  
Most of- the medicinal flora significantly used withinside the  
conventional device of drug treatments are acquired from the wild  
sources. There are only some natural tablets which are  
cultivated on huge scale in India. Most of the pure  
chemical substances are extracted from the cultivated flora and  
there are only some compounds for which the wild flora  
are used for extraction viz, strychnine and brucine from  
Strychnos nux vomica, vasicine (peganine ) from Adhatoda  
zeylanica and berberine from Berberi spp.etc.  
According to the global general organisation,  
there are approximately 70 speices and condiments which have  
been permitted and regarded and are being grown withinside the  
extraordinary components of the world. Of these, approximately 35 are grown  
commercially in India and approximately 12 are grown on a small  
scale withinside the gardens however have properly global marketplace.  
The pharmaceutically vital gums viz., guar gum,  
acacia gum, gum ghati, sterculia gum, trangacanth gums