Virtual Herbal Garden

Abstract

This paper presents how medicinal plants play an important role in traditional healthcare systems such as AYUSH, which includes Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy. However, many people lack awareness and easy access to information about these medicinal plants and their health benefits. This paper presents the development of a Virtual Herbal Garden, an interactive digital platform designed to provide knowledge about various medicinal plants and their medicinal properties. The system allows users to explore different herbal plants and learn about their scientific names, uses, and diseases they help treat. The platform also integrates an AI-based chatbot that helps users search for herbal remedies by entering symptoms or diseases. Based on the user input, the system recommends suitable medicinal plants and provides related information. The application is developed using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP to create a user-friendly and responsive interface. The proposed system aims to promote awareness of traditional medicinal plants and provide an accessible digital resource for learning and healthcare support.

Introduction

The proposed system combines three main components:

1. Interactive Digital Garden – Users can explore different plants, view scientific names, properties, and health benefits, without physically visiting a garden.
2. AI/ML-Based Recommendation System – Machine learning algorithms (e.g., Decision Trees, Random Forest) analyze user-inputted symptoms or diseases and suggest suitable herbal remedies.
3. AI Chatbot – Provides natural language interaction, answers queries, guides users to relevant plant information, and supports personalized herbal recommendations.

The platform is developed using web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP to ensure a user-friendly and interactive interface. Features include plant search by name, category, or disease, bookmarking, and tracking recent searches.

The main objective is to promote awareness of medicinal plants, facilitate learning about traditional healthcare, and provide accessible digital guidance for herbal remedies. The system enhances user experience by integrating education, AI-driven recommendations, and interactive support in a single digital platform.

Conclusion

The Virtual Herbal Garden is developed as an interactive digital platform that provides information about medicinal plants used in traditional healthcare systems such as AYUSH. The system helps users explore different herbal plants and learn about their medicinal properties, scientific names, and therapeutic uses. The integration of a Machine Learning–based recommendation system allows users to receive suitable herbal plant suggestions based on diseases or symptoms entered by the user. In addition, the AI chatbot improves user interaction by answering queries and guiding users in finding appropriate herbal remedies. The system is implemented using web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, which provide a responsive and user-friendly interface. The Virtual Herbal Garden promotes awareness of medicinal plants and makes herbal knowledge easily accessible through a digital platform.

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Copyright

Copyright © 2026 Sandhya Chougale , Tejaswini Chougule , Namrata Patil , Shravani Sangale, Umesh Patil. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.