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NCB officials are now planning to start an awareness drive among chemists in the Tricity about the rules related to selling ayurvedic medicines. NCB officials have seized these medicines in large numbers in Punjab, especially during the recently concluded assembly elections. CHANDIGARH: In its first crackdown in Chandigarh, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested a grocery shop owner for selling ayurvedic medicines containing opium without the requisite permissions. From Arora's shop, they recovered two cartons of Barshaha and one carton of Habb-E-Mumsik "These ayurvedic medicines contain between 8% and 32% opium," Sharma said. Officials seized three cartons of Barshasha and Unani medicine Habb-EMumsik..