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 Engelhardt officer. In 1852 he received the rank of lieutenant general and was appointed to a senior post in the Corps of Civil Engineers. Engelhardt died on May 20, 1856 in St. Petersburg and is buried in the Volkov Lutheran cemetery. Valerian Engelhardt Valerian Engelhardt () (1798–1856) was a Russian lieutenant general and director of the Russian Institute of Railway Engineers. Engelhardt was born into the nobility of Livonia as a member of the Engelhardt family on December 24, 1798, the son of Colonel F. H. Engelhardt. His brother Nicholas Engelhardt also became a lieutenant general and member of the Order