PASIGHAT, 9 Jul: Famend natural drugs practitioner and Padma Shri awardee Yanung Jamoh Lego was honoured on Wednesday on the Sigar army station right here in East Siang district for her excellent contributions within the discipline of indigenous information system.
Lego was felicitated by the Spear Corps commanderwith a memento throughout a felicitation programme honouring her achievements.
Talking on the event, Lego emphasised that nature holds the remedy for many illnesses. “The medicinal and therapeutic properties of crops and herbs are a present from Mom Nature to humankind,” she mentioned, including that “age-old conventional therapeutic system can be an essential element in wellness and healthcare system.”
She mentioned that sufferers from numerous components of the nation go to her, and added that researchers and PhD students additionally avail of her experience for tutorial and analysis works.
Born on 9 July, 1963, Lego has an MSc in agriculture from the Assam Agricultural College, and in addition served as a district agricultural officer, earlier than retiring in 2023. She hails from Sika-Tode village in East Siang district, and credit her foray into the world of conventional natural system to her father, a extremely regarded conventional healer locally, who launched her to the world of conventional therapeutic system since childhood.
Since 1995, Lego has handled hundreds of sufferers utilizing natural cures, and in addition based an indigenous natural heritage centre to advertise medicinal plant conservation and consciousness. (DIPRO)
