Marsh Orchids Extract/alpine meadows

Uses : Tubers are used as nervine tonic. It is also used to treat cuts, wounds, cough and anemia.

Salep, obtained from the tubers, is used as a sizing material in the silk industry in Kashmir.

The Central Himalayan region has been rich in biological wealth and would become an uplift resource of socio-economic status of the Himalayan people. Presence of a varied number of medicinal plants indicates its significance. Due to various levels of disturbances, destruction of number of economically important plants in these alpine meadows is continued like declining of Dactylorhiza hatagirea (D.Don) Soo, in its natural population. Out of six study sites, only two sites showed its presence, which indicates its declining health from natural population