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 …
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 …
The Ministry of Ayush on September 23, 2021 has issued Draft Drugs and Cosmetics (Amendment) Rules, 2021 to further amend the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945. In Rule 30AA which specifies “Import of New Homoeopathic medicines”, has been inserted in the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, namely: (1) No New …
The Ministry of Ayush on July 02, 2021, has issued a Notification to further amend the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, and the new Rules called as the Drugs and Cosmetics (Amendment) Rules, 2021. The amended Rule will come into force on the date of their final publication. Any people …
KANPUR: The homeopathic doctors of the city organised a continuing medical education (CME) programme here on Monday to spread awareness among people about treatment of water-borne disease like dengue and chikungunya by homeopathic medicines. The homeopathic experts said medicines like Chinum Arfcnicum, Lachcsif and Echinacea Baptica, Carbo Veg and Crotalus …
MUMBAI: Can the Hepatitis C virus help control liver cancer?? A city homeopath has published a study in an international medical journal on the anti-cancer effect of a new homeopathic medicine prepared from Hepatitis C virus in a laboratory model. There is, at present, scepticism over the efficacy of homeopathy, …
Delhi Health Minister Satyender Jain today asked the homeopathy fraternity if they could come up with a "permanent" solution to tackle dengue which affects hundreds of people annually in the national capital alone. "Homeopathic system of medicine is capable of healing most of the diseases of the time. Delhi has …
India may be in the pink of health once again with the Union health ministry expecting a 20-25 per cent hike in the upcoming health budget this time. Already one of the world’s lowest, the Narendra Modi government had kept a tight rein on public health spending by slashing the …
In a bid to achieve the objective of holistic healthcare system, the government on Monday announced it will formulate a new health policy that is universally accessible, affordable and effective. “Our country needs a holistic healthcare system that is universally accessible, affordable and effective. To achieve this objective, my government …
After the government failed to include the traditional stream of medicines in the Drugs and Cosmetics (amendment) Bill, 2013, it is now mulling a separate legislation to regulate systems such as ayurveda and homeopathy. According to official sources, the department of AYUSH, which administers development of ayurveda, yoga & naturopathy, …
Homeopathy is not only a human health care system but a whole science benefiting the entire life forms on the planet including the plants and crops. With the surge in demand for chemical residue free food and growing awareness for sustainability of the system various alternative models are being promoted. …
The activists opposing the commercialization of Bt brinjal have asserted that Bt brinjal would seriously affect the use of brinjal in the Alternative and Complementary Systems of Medicine (ACSM) in India, through ‘loss of synergy’. The then Minister for Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of India (GoI), repeatedly echoed this …
The opposition to BT brinjal has partly arisen because some Solanum species are widely used in Indian medicine. According to Prof. C Kamswara Rao of the Foundation of Biotechnology Awareness and Education (FBAE), Bangalore, he clarifies in a recent book that brinjal is not a medicinal plant; rather, Solanum medicines …
According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health, USA, ‘Homeopathy is a controversial area of alternative medicine involving highly diluted preparations and its con- cepts are not consistent with well-known laws of science.’ http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/10apr2011/977.pdf
NANOPARTICLES are the latest breakthrough in cancer treatment. They can ferry anti-cancer drugs into the malignant cells while sparing neighbouring healthy cells, thus, eliminating side effects that accompany cancer therapies. Biologists from the University of Kalyani in West Bengal recently tested their effectiveness in carrying a homoeopathic drug. They carried …
The science and technology com- mittee said the therapy is not effi- cacious or, it does not work beyond the placebo effect British MPs have restarted the controversial debate on the efficacy of homeopathy after a House of Commons committee advised the government to stop funding homeopathy treatments on the …
This study presents comparative TLC of ethanol extract of plants, Euphorbia hirta L. (Euphorbiaceae) and Gomphrena celosioides Mart. (Amaranthaceae) and formulation (E. hirta + G. celosioides, 4:1) was compared with some of the available homeopathic drugs for piles.
When Edzard Ernst became the UK's first professor of complementary medicine, he was attacked by both alternative therapists and conventional doctors. The doctors have come round, but he is now alternative medicine's public enemy number one after sticking the needle into everything from acupuncture to homeopathy. He insists he is …
