National Herbal Park

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National Herbal Park is a recently opened park in Nay Pyi Taw, Burma that shows rare herbal and medicinal plants and herbal remedies from states and divisions in the country. The aim is to establish a herbal park of international level with variety of plants. Entry fee is free. It opened on January 4 2008 morning at 8 o'clock.

The 200-acre (0.81 km²) National Herbal Park was set up near the Nay Pyi Taw-Taungnyo Road. It also show herbal plants used in production of medicines for cholera, diarrhoea and dysentery, used in treatment of malaria and tuberculosis and herbal plants used in treatment of hypertension and diabetes in the park.

It shows 3065 plants of 208 rare species from Kachin, Kayah and Shan states and Sagaing, Taninthayi, Yangon and Ayeyawady, 8425 plants of 424 species from Mon and Kayin States, 13340 plants of 87 species from Mandalay, Magway and Bago and Rakhine and Chin States.

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• The New Light of Myanmar Volume XV, Number 265 published in Sunday 6 January 2008