environmentalism about nature. The use of plants in healing finds a receptive population
among urban and rural Nepalis, and discourse about medicinal plants is generated in a
variety of places.
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For this chapter, I draw attention to the politics of conserving
Ayurvedic medicinal plants within contexts of local engagement with nature and the
environment that are common to lay Nepalis, specific engagements with medicinal plants
by family-trained and academically-trained doctors, and government and non-
government organizations’ efforts to protect medicinal plants.
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