Safety and Efficacy of Ayurvedic Formulations

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Hello All Members

First I would like to thanks Dr Vijay Thawani for all needful he is doing on Netrum in general and on this issue in particular.

Why Ayurvedic Medicines are under scanner today?

Whom contribution is it?

What is needed to proceed in either direction?

How a policy may be framed which make person accountable for the cases of Ayurvedic formulations in larger interest of ailing humanity?

Whether Drugs & Cosmetics Acts 1940 and Rules 1945 is effective to achieve goals pertaining to global acceptance of Ayurvedic Formulation as drug not as food supplement.

Whether recently (2004) notified EU Directives and MLX s are enough sufficient and with justification to nature of Ayurvedic System of Medicine to regulate these medicines in European Union.

How much NICCAM a subsidiary of NIH USA is fair enough in regulations of these medicines?

WHO as leader of Health policy how much contributing for the re establishment of TM /CAM in broader sense and for Ayurveda in specific way.

And in the end I would like to invite every one to think deeply that how much and in what way contemporary science may be involved for validation of safety and efficacy of Ayurvedic Medicines.

Please provide input of your vision so that we may share and potentiate our views in this regard.-- Anand ChaudharyAssociate ProfessorDeptt of Rasa Shastra(Ayurvedic Pharmaceutics)

Faculty of AyuvedaInstitute of Medical Sciences Banaras Hindu UniversityVARANASI 221005Cell 945207448098898638660542-2366900®