Valeriana wallichii Valeriana wallichii Valeriana wallichii is a rhizome herb of the genus Valeriana and the family Valerianaceae also called Indian Valerian or Tagar-Ganthoda, not to be confused with ganthoda, the root of Indian long pepper. It is an herb useful in Ayurvedic medicine used as an analeptic, antispasmodic, carminative, sedative, stimulant, stomachic, and nervine. It grows in the Northwest Himalayas in places like Astore (Northern Pakistan) and forests in the region. The genus Valeriana, with about 200 species, belongs to the family Valerianaceae and has a distribution throughout the world. The Indian Valerian has long been used in Ayurveda (Charak Samhita
Valerian Pletnev by essentially arguing for continued state subsidies fro Proletkult which were being reduced under the New Economic Policy. He praised the organisations literary output, including the role of drama as well as the development of production art. From 1933 to 1936 he was Deputy Head of the General Directorate of the Film Industry at the SNK of the USSR. However he was subsequenlty purged and shot in 1942. Valerian Pletnev Valerian Fedorovich Pletnev (1886–1942) () was a Russian revolutionary who after many years as a joiner became a playwright and activist in Proletkult, following the Russian Revolution. He joined the