Jammu, Feb. 17 -- A first-ever three-day international conference on traditional medicine and phytopharmaceuticals commenced here on Friday with over 700 dignitaries, including 100 speakers from 20 countries in attendance, officials said.

Union Minister Jitendra Singh inaugurated the conference, which is being held in conjunction with 11th International Congress of the Society for Ethnopharmacology, at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine (CSIR-IIIM), Jammu.

The Conference is organised by CSIR-IIIM, in collaboration with the Society of Ethnopharmacology (SFE), Kolkata on the theme "Ethnopharmacology in Development of Phytopharmaceutical Drugs", the officials said.

Delivering the ina...