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Use in other system of medicine:
Since the time of the first Chinese and Egyptian civilizations, these have been medicinally used in traditional system of medicines. The literary records of traditional knowledge of Indian medicinal plants demonstrated the lichen in Rigveda, a text where the first authentic record of ‘Aushadhi’ (medicine) has been described. Further the use of lichen in folklore as medicine has been mentioned in different pharmacopoeias of the world
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