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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.