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 Rodrigues at the University of Erfurt, Visiting Professor at the University of Wurzburg and Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Studies, Erfurt, Germany. Valerian Rodrigues Valerian Rodrigues (born 1949) is an Indian political scientist. He is known for his seminal work on Babasaheb Ambedkar, and for his formulations of themes in Modern Indian Political Thought. He is currently Ambedkar Chair at the Ambedkar University Delhi. Rodrigues has made substantial contributions to the debate on the working of the Indian Parliament, constitutionalism in India, and agrarian politics in India. As a Professor at the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal