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Drug Research

The drug is considered to be one of the 4 major components of the treatment in Ayurveda. The standard quantity of the drug is essential for success of the therapy. The acquisition of the standard quality of drug requires its proper identification, adequate availability and processing.

 

The development of a new drug requires phyto-pharmacological investigations. The safety of the drug is equally important. Accordingly, the Council has taken up following categories of research programmes under drug research.

  • Survey of medicinal plants.
  • Pharmacogonosy
  • Cultivation of medicinal plants including tissue culture
  • Phyto-chemistry
  • Phramacology/Toxicity
  • Drug standardisation

 

Important outcomes of these categories of research programmes are provided here under.

SURVEY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS

Number of Research Centers : 8

  1. Regional Research Institute (Ay.), Bangalore (Karnataka)
  2. Regional Research Institute (Ay.), Guwahati (Assam)
  3. Central Research Institute (Ay.), Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh)
  4. Regional Research Institute (Ay.), Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh)
  5. Regional Research Institute (Ay.), Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh)
  6. Regional Research Institute (Ay.), Nagpur (Maharashtra)
  7. Regional Research Institute (Ay.), Tarikhet (Uttaranchal)
  8. Regional Research Institute (Drug Research), Trivandrum (Kerala)

 

No. of Tours conducted : 1054

Herbarium Specimens collected : 1, 75,223

Museum /Market samples collected : 3,364

Folk claims collected : 5696

New plant species recorded : 8

Monographs published : 14

 

  1. Medicinal Flora of Certain Districts of Uttar Pradesh - I, II & III.
  2. Uttarakhand Vanoushadhi Darshika.
  3. Tribal pockets of Nilgiris recordings of the field study on medicinal flora and health practices.
  4. Preliminary Techno Economical Survey of Natural Resources and Herbal Wealth of Ladakh.
  5. Observations of Medico-Botany of Andaman-Nicobar Islands.
  6. Medico-Botanical Exploration of Phulbani and Koraput Districts of Orissa.
  7. Medicinal Plants of Nagpur and Wardha Forest Division (Maharashtra).
  8. Medico-Ethno-Botanical Explorations of Sikkim Himalayas.
  9. Medico-Botanical Exploration of Puri Distt. (Orissa).
  10. Medico-Ethno-Botany of Sonebhadra District.
  11. Glimpses of Medico-Botany of Bastar Distt. (M.P.)
  12. Contribution to the Medico-Botany of East Godawari and West Godawari Districts of Andhra Pradesh.
  13. A report of Medicinal Plants of Kachchh (Gujarat).
  14. Heeling hurbs of himalaya - A pictorial and herbaria guide.

 

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