Clinical Research in Ayurveda: A Preliminary Review of 225 Papers Published In Indian Ayurveda Journals

225 clinical studies reported in three reputed Ayurvedic journals were reviewed for their qualitative outcomes. Conventional medicine diagnoses were used in nearly 90 % of studies and inconclusive outcomes were observed in most of the studies. Failure to validate claims of Ayurvedic treatments, products and or therapies otherwise regularly practiced mostly for chronic disease conditions raise concerns about methodologies followed. Diagnosticspecificities and therapeutic variances are major challenges to design clinical studies to validate Ayurvedic treatments. Inability to adapt to conventional clinical study norms are obvious. There is an urgent need to evolve newer methodologies to evaluate Ayurvedic treatments based on its own paradigm.