NLAM Travel Diaries #EP-12 Is this the hidden SHANGRILA , The mystical Pemako valley Arunachal Pradesh

NLAM presents 12th episode of short video documentaries about traditional healers , ethno-medicine & local customs & cultures in India. These are made during excursions to heritage village and exclusive valleys to collect Vedic herbs and documenting traditional knowledge.

This is short slide presentation on the mystical Pemako valley in central Arunachal which I had the fortune to visit. It also is source to hidden valley of flowers.  This presentation is part of NLAM project to document traditional and  ethnic customs and medicines towards Ayurveda, Yoga and Tantra. The entire travel vlog can be accessed at the lesson on earth channel.

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NLAM Travel Diaries #EP-11, Interview in Moorang, an offbeat remote village in Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh

NLAM presents 11th episode of short video documentaries about traditional healers , ethno-medicine & local customs & cultures in India. These are made during excursions to heritage village and exclusive valleys to collect Vedic herbs and documenting traditional knowledge. A short interview with local resident of Moorang village which lies at cusp mom Kinnaur and Spiti valley. The rugged village though buddhist in nature finds references to Mahabharat.

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Phen Kamal, Saussurea simpsoniana, Yogi's Survival Plant in Himalayas

Saussurea simpsoniana  (Field. & Gardner) Lipschitz, ; Nov. Syst. Pl. Vasc. 1964: 319 (1964); 
Synonyms:  Aplotaxis gossypina var. minor DC.; Aplotaxis simpsoniana Fielding & Gardner; Saussurea sacra Edgew;
Family: Asteraceae Dumortier
Name: PhenKamal(Common) Ghuggi, Jogi booti, Jogi phull, Jogipadshah (Dogri)

BOTANY (efloras.org)
Herbs 2-12[-25] cm tall, perennial, caespitose, polycarpic. Caudex stout, branched, with several sterile leaf rosettes and flowering stems. Stem solitary, ca. 6 mm in diam., erect, simple, usually hidden by leaves. Rosette and lower stem leaves petiolate; leaf blade narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic to linear, 2-6 × 0.3-0.6[-1.2] cm, both surfaces green or purplish and sparsely arachnoid, base cuneate-attenuate, margin dentate to pinnately lobed, apex acute. Uppermost stem leaves linear, 10-25 × 1-2 mm, usually reflexed, both surfaces densely white lanate, margin entire or denticulate, apex acute. Capitula numerous, in a hemispheric synflorescence 2-3.5 cm in diam., sessile or shortly pedunculate. Involucre cylindric, 4-6 mm in diam. Phyllaries in 3 or 4 rows, membranous, apex acute to acuminate; outer phyllaries narrowly triangular-ovate, 11-13 × ca. 3 mm, apically lanate; inner phyllaries narrowly ovate-elliptic to linear, 9-10 × 1.5-2 mm, apically sparsely pilose. Receptacle bristles ca. 1.5 mm. Corolla purple, 0.9-1.1 cm, tube 3.5-5 mm, limb 5.5-6 mm, lobes 2-3 mm. Achene brown, 2-3 mm, wrinkled, apically sparsely papillose. Pappus straw-colored; outer bristles ca. 3 mm; inner bristles ca. 1 cm
Phenology (Fl. & Frt.) August – September.

DISTRIBUTION

4400-5800m(14400-19000ft) distributed in the Eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Kashmir and Western Himalayas covering the Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim.

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NLAM Travel Diaries #EP-10, Ancient Kali Mata Temple, Hathu Peak Himachal Pradesh India

NLAM presents 10th episode of short video documentaries about traditional healers , ethno-medicine & local customs & cultures in India. These are made during excursions to heritage village and exclusive valleys to collect Vedic herbs and documenting traditional knowledge. A short interview with local priest of Kali Mata Temple at Hathu Peak, Narkanda. We get insights into the annual fair & antiquity of the temple and through it insights into the gram Devi culture of India

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NLAM Travel Diaries #EP-09, Dying Handloom craft of Jibhi Valley Himachal Pradesh India

NLAM presents 9th episode of short video documentaries about traditional healers , ethno-medicine & local customs & cultures in India. These are made during excursions to heritage village & exclusive valleys to collect Vedic herbs & documenting traditional knowledge. This episode presents an interview with local resident of Jibhi village in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh. Here I try to understand the intricate handloom industry which is slowly dying to commercialisation.

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