In this study, the RAPD (Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA) technique was employed for determination of the components in an Ayurvedic herbal prescription, Rasayana Churna. One-hundred-and-twenty decamer oligonucleotide primers were screened in the RAPD analysis to identify three Ayurvedic medicines, dried stem of Tinospora cordifolia, dried fruit of Emblica officinalis and dried fruit of Tribul...

Ayurvedic medicine is an ancient Indian form of healing. It is gaining popularity as part of the growing interest in New Age spirituality and in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). There is no cure for Asthma as per the Conventional Medical Science. Ayurvedic medicines can be a potential and effective alternative for the treatment against the bronchial asthma. Ayurvedic medicines are ...

Rumoozul Atibba, a rare Urdu book compiled by Hakim Fairozuddin is in two Volumes. It is published by Darul Kutub Rafiqul Atibba, printed in "Rifah-e-Aam press in 1913 at Lahore which contains short biographies of Ayurvedic and Unani physicians. It has been compiled to disclose the tested formulae hidden in the minds of eminent scholars of Ayurveda and Unani with their life sketches. The select...

Traditional medicine (especially ayurvedic medicine) was taken by Indian nationalismas a synecdoche for traditional culture. In the face of European claims for scientific andtechnologic pre-eminence, Indian thinkers such as Aurobindo, Vivekananda,Radakrishnan, accepted European representations of Indian thinking as mystic andintuitive, to define it as distinctive of Indian ident...

An integrated approach is needed to manage cancer using the growing body of knowledge gained through scientific developments. Thousands of herbal and traditional compounds are being screened worldwide to validate their use as anti-cancerous drugs. The science of Ayurveda is supposed to add a step on to the curative aspects of cancers that have resemblance with clinical entities of arbuda and gr...

Objective To evaluate and synthesize the evidence on the effect of Ayurvedic therapies for diabetes mellitus. Design Systematic review of trials. Measurements and main results We found no study that assessed Ayurvedic as a system of care. Botanical therapy was by far the most commonly studied Ayurvedic treatment. Herbs were studied either singly or as formulas. In all, 993 titles in Western com...

Sir, In his article “Beyond reverse pharmacology: Mechanism based screening of Ayurvedic drugs,” Dr. R. D. Lele, the eminent teacher of modern medicine and scholar of Ayurveda, urges us to include advances in biomedical sciences for screening of Ayurvedic drugs.[1,2] However, as he has not cited any of the original articles and references on Reverse Pharmacology (RP),[3-7] it seems that the exp...

INTRODUCTION AYURVEDIC CONCEPT OF CANCER Ayurveda is a Science of life. We know that Cancer is one of the most dreaded disease of 20 century and spreading further with continuance and increasing incidence in 21 century. Classical Ayurvedic have several references to cancer. Some terms used to describe the condition are general while others are much more specific. According to Ayurveda, there ar...

Standardization of ayurvedic drugs has become necessary as in all other walks of life. This paper deals with the detection of Acorus calamus in Ayurvedic preparations. It is one of the most commonly used ingredients in ayurvedic preparations. This layer chromatographic technique was used for detection. Two solvent systems were developed and the spots were visualized in iodine vapour. The spot o...

The ayurvedic pharmacy needs to be established on the basis of modern quality standards. A study on ayurvedic Guti-Vati (tablets) was undertaken with this view, revealed that most of the tablets conform to the I P standards for hardness and DT. A few of the tablets showed curious responses similar to that of enteric coated and slow release tablets commonly used in modern medicine.A systematic s...