Eco India: Meet the woman leading a herbal medicine & grassroots wellness renaissance in Tamil Nadu

Every week, Eco India brings you stories that inspire you to build a cleaner, greener and better tomorrow. Our top story this week looks at how Parvathi Nagarajan, who comes from a family of traditional healers, has successfully documented over 400 traditional herbal remedies and is spearheading a movement to conserve and revive various traditional herbs.
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Supervising Producer: Nooshin Mowla
Directors of Photography: Samuel Anand
Video Editor: Sujit Lad
Script & Field Producer: Catherine Gilon
Associate Producer: Shibika Suresh
Executive Producer: Sannuta Raghu
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[@senthilkumarn4u]

I'm from Tamilnadu but never knew about these things.. preserving traditions along with modern science... tech & medicine is the way to go...

[@mrunalsinghraghav5630]

The more this channel shows us we get to know something new about our own communities ,great work guy's 🙏 keep it up,these people will get support if u Keep showing them ,coz most of us don't know anything about all this .

[@kamaleshsingh7795]

We should have more of these groups..

[@seetha1412]

Very inspiring to see the work of Parvathi and the many women she has mentored and encouraged...May her tribe increase!!

[@manavmishra9071]

God bless these noble women 🙏

[@goldu]

*love **scroll.in** so much....was waiting for your documentary*

[@parvathynagarajan8975]

Thank you to all for your support 🙏

[@siva.n4948]

can you please add your address .we can come and buy these herbal medicine.

[@ZaphodsSecondHead]

You are an inspiration, Akka 🙏🙏

[@shivamitra95]

Should develop such self help groups in West Bengal too as in other states

[@shivamjani8764]

This is how ancient India was, connected to nature.

[@RahulKumar-py8fz]

Finally Scroll! After a long time...

[@jeesmarydcruz7998]

They should expand these business to a global level...it has been seen that consumers are moving more towards Sustainable lifestyle including natural & eco friendly products ayurvedic treatments...this can help the self help group to grow and Flourish...!!❤️

[@kathrineahmed7211]

Great job!

[@vthilton]

Sharing Truth, and Peace for All.

[@vijayaraja346]

Pichavaram mangrove forest which is 2rd largest mangrove forest in the world along the coramandal coastal of Tamil Nadu should be preserved ....then only our traditional medicine methods will be alive in future....!!

[@murali9.sariputi]

Nice

[@SachinSharma-vt1zq]

how can we buy this joint pain oil? do they do online delivery ?

[@vinaykrishna8454]

God bless her and the team

[@roopa4950]

Oh we need so many women & men like this because alternative medicine is deep in our roots and many times works like magic

[@kanchansakshisachdeva9582]

Kindly give audio in hindi also.

[@Muskan_483]

Which language has been used?

[@spidermantom4367]

Tamil

[@baburaojadhav7925]

Very nice. God bless you Bharat mata ki Jay

[@traditionalcgvillagelife3284]

Training dete h kya sir

[@CastleLager-lf5eu]

We need more positive stories. Not 15 people shouting at each other on primetime.

[@maazkalim]

The channels which air this show are abysmally-low rated.
So of course..
It's pret-ty clear what the masses want.