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               IX. Conclusion
                 The  use  of  medicinal  plants  and  Traditional  medicine  is  still  in  important  Lao
               people Democratic Republic.
                 Institute of Traditional Medicine has:
                        -  Inventoried 1,600 species of medicinal plants (510 families)
                        -  Collected 5,261 herbarium specimens
                        -  Created a database of more than 1,200 medicinal plant species of the Lao
                           PDR.
                 Established one ex-situ and seven in-situ medicinal plant gardens.
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