NITI Aayog released a compendium of Ayush-based practices from States and Union territories detailing information about various Ayush-based initiatives and practices adopted by the States and Union territories in India for containing and managing the COVID-19 outbreak. Since the year 2020, the world has been facing an unprecedented public health …
Commonsense, logic and clarity provide an ageless quality to Ayurveda knowledge for health care. Ayurvedic institutions along with its teachers, students and practitioners are in despair – a crisis similar to that faced by contemporary Western medicine compatriots. We envision vaidya-scientists, a scholarly group of change agents, who are well …
The State government will formulate a policy on Ayurveda in Karnataka, according to Medical Education Minister S A Ramdas. Addressing a press conference on the sidelines of the last day of the Fourth World Ayurveda Congress here on Monday, Ramdas said six departments will come together to frame a policy …
Ashtavaidya, a unique practice of Ayurvedic medicine is an amalgamation of the codified Ayurvedic medical knowledge and non-codified folk medical tradition of India, and is practised by a few physician families in Kerala. Like many other forms of indigenous knowledge, the Ashtavaidya tradition suffers from lack of support, and the …
The Indian Medicine Central Council (Amendment) Bill 2010, hereinafter referred to as the Bill, was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on the 6th May 2010 and referred to the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare on the 12th May, 2010 for examination and report thereon. The objectives …
The government of India is drafting a notification according to which drugs manufactured by traditional systems of medicines would have to go through the same process of drug testing and trials as required for allopathic drugs. The guidelines issued in June by the Ministry of Health are to be followed …
Rooted Out A report has deemed 335medicinal plants threatened The cause: their use in ayurvedic medicines, for which there is a growing global demand Guggal, from which gum-resin is used in ayurvedic medicines, is virtually extinct in India One corrective initiative from the government is the setting up of 29 …
The enormous complexity of human body offers scope to conceptualize its dynamic organization in a number of ways such as structural, biochemical, functional, etc. The conventional western medicine views the body from a structural perspective, whereas ayurveda, the ancient medical system of India, understands the human body from the perspective …
NEDUMBASSERY: A unique project of cultivating medicinal plants on idle land, including on the sides of the 4-km runway of Cochin International Airport, was inaugurated by Industries Minister Elamaram Kareem here on Monday. The CIAL will implement the project in association with the Confederation for Ayurvedic Renaissance-Kerala (CARe Keralam), a …
Ninety three per cent of wild medicinal plants used for making ayurvedic medicines in the country are endangered and the government is trying to relocate them from their usual habitat to protect them. The threat to the plants came to the fore in an assessment exercise in different states carried …
Spice up the meat preparation or get respite from sore throat—ginger is always around to help. Grandmother’s ginger tea for coughs never fails. Moving away from home remedies, the dried rhizome of ginger comprises ayurvedic medicines prescribed for gastrointestinal disorders. “Dried ginger, rock salt and black pepper with lukewarm water …
When all else fails turn to Ayurveda. This has become the norm among researchers lately. From turmeric for cancer to the fig bark remedy for joint pains, modern medical practitioners have been nodding their heads in approval. The latest addition to the list is snake venom and it shows promise …
This is a WHO monograph on selected medicinal plants describing their quality control and use. It contains two parts: the first provides pharmacopoeial summaries for quality assurance purposes; and the second describes the clinical applications of the plant material. The WHO monographs on selected medicinal plants aim to provide scientific …
NEW DELHI: President Pratibha Devisingh Patil on Wednesday expressed concern over climate change that was threatening the existence of several Indian herbs which are key ingredients in the traditional Ayurvedic system of medicine.
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday said Ayurveda and Unani interventions could be used for increasing the immunity to fight various flu-like conditions. These could be adopted by normal healthy persons as well as those with mild symptoms such as cold, cough and body pain. However, in the case of …
The mercury based Indian traditional drug Ras-Sindoor is administered for the various ailments such as syphilis, genital disorders, and for rejuvenation. Pharmaceutical processing of Ras-Sindoor involves treating metallic mercury with sulfur and the juice of the aerial root of Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis Linn.) and then controlled intermittent heating so …
Sthaulya is a deprecate state of human being. The physical morbidity of Sthaulya is paramount and enhances several disease processes. In the study, the role of Agnimantha (Premna obtusifolia R. Br.) as antiobesity agent has been studied in 26 subjects with severe form of Sthaulya and has been compared in …
The traditional knowledge of healing plants and their treatment methods are rooted in the Ayurvedic compendia and in the unscripted dialects of the people in India. Scientific documentation of this vast information has been accelerated in the last few decades. A first time study of the medicinal plants used for …
