On October 14, 2020, the State Customs Service of Turkmenistan has held the presentation of the XII Volume encyclopedic work of President, Academic of the Academy of Sciences of the country, Doctor of Medicine, Professor Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov “Medicinal Plants of Turkmenistan”, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reports.
Heads and leading specialists of the Ministry took part in the ceremony.The participants highlighted special importance of new volume, which is continuation of fundamental scientific work, on which President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has started working in 2009, in their speeches.
It was mentioned that “Medicinal Plants of Turkmenistan”, which represents an encyclopedia of flora of our country, has become a handbook on phytotherapy not only for Turkmen medics and pharmacologists but also for many foreign specialists who have an opportunity to study the book owing to translation to many languages.
The book contains detailed description of healing properties of medicinal plants growing in the country, including endemics, their use in scientific and traditional medicine.The same as previous book, which have been translated to many world languages, new volume of scientific work of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has been published in big amount.
The publication contains photo illustrations, Russian Latin Turkmen dictionary of plants and calendar of picking of medicinal plants.Specialists highlighted that new volume of encyclopedia of medicinal flora will be undoubtedly interesting for wide reading audience.