Dear Friends of AHP,

We wanted to make you aware of ABC’s formal release of Ashwagandha: India’s Versatile Healing Root, a 13-minute video featured on YouTube highlighting the importance of ashwagandha in Ayurveda and human health. The video presents the more than thousand-year history of the use of the root in India and beyond and touches on its modern use as an adaptogen. Numerous botanical experts are featured and include Ayurvedic scholar and practitioner Dr. Jayagopal Parla, herbalist and medical doctor Tieraona Low Dog, Medicine Hunter Chris Kilham, renowned natural product researcher Dr. Pulok Mukherjee, and AHP President and editor Roy Upton. Read more at https://www.herbalgram.org/news/press-releases/2026/ashwagandha-root-herb-tv/

HerbTV is an open access repository of educational videos on medicinal herbs and related health and wellbeing content, including interviews and in-field tours with renowned herbalists, botanists, and ethnobotanists. It features Created Playlists organized by category and health conditions, as well as ABC’s Adopt-an-Herb videos and videos and webinars on herbal sustainability and safety. It is freely accessible to all.

Ashwagandha: India’s Versatile Healing Root was made possible by an educational grant from Ixoreal Biomed/KSM-66.

To access HerbTV go to this link: https://www.youtube.com/herbtv

To access Ashwagandha: India’s Versatile Healing Root visit this link: https://youtu.be/2SsLMcg5AxQ

Enjoy watching!

Sincere regards,

Roy Upton, President, American Herbal Pharmacopoeia

Founder, Global Alliance for Integrative Health & Medicine (GAIHM)