The extent of quality research and high impact publications on Ayurveda is slowly increasing. Agreeably, more efforts are needed for research capacity building and human resource development to ensure critical mass of thinkers, researchers, clinicians and scholars. The Indian and international scientific community needs proper interaction with Ayurveda scholarship for developing epistemology se...

Ayurveda is prevention in itself. It is not necessary for Ayurveda to develop a comprehensive structure of preventive approaches as it is found in modern health education. On the other hand has Ayurveda not modernized its preventive principles according to the present living and working conditions of the people. It is so far not understood as integral part of the socio-economic development of t...

Purpose Literature searching for prior research work on Ayurveda can turn out to be a frustrating exercise because the majority of the journals publishing papers on Ayurveda are not indexed in international databases such as Pubmed. Absence of controlled vocabulary that can facilitate literature search in the areas of Ayurvedic research makes it even more difficult to access available data effe...

Otitis media (Karnapaka in Sanskrit) is defined as an inflammation of the middle ear due to the infection caused by micro-organism. In Ayurveda Ayurveda suggest prevention rather than treatment. A with appropriate cleansings. The second course of action is the actual treatment. There are many natural ways for the treatment of such conditions, Ayurveda possesses various route of treatment for ea...

Several arguments have been forwarded for the stagnation of Ayurveda, and most of these focus on the discrimination that Ayurveda faces under Mughal and then under British rule. Even for Ancient India, the halcyon portrait of Ayurveda synergetically related with religion and politics during the period, as has been portrayed in many books of history and in countless lores, is false. This paper t...

It is a biographical work which sheds light on the lives and works of some of the Ayurvedic Physicians flourished during Nizam dynasty. The credit for development of Ayurveda in Hyderabad goes to the eminent Ayurvedic Physicians, mentioned in this articles who taught Ayurveda in their private clinics, rendered their services during the outbreak of epidemics, organised conferences, compiled very...

OBJECTIVE To compare classic Ayurveda, methotrexate (MTX), and their combination in a double-blind, randomized, double-dummy, pilot trial in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for 36 weeks. METHODS Forty-three seropositive RA patients by American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria with disease duration of less than 7 years were assigned to the following treatment groups: MTX plus Ayurvedic placebo...

The Second World Ayurveda Congress will be hosted by the University of Pune during November 5–12, 2006, with the overall theme, ‘Ayurveda for the Future’. It is anticipated that the Congress will generate even greater global interest in Ayurveda than the First World Ayurveda Congress, held at Cochin, Kerala, in November 2002, visited by over 300 000 people. For those who wish to attend the Cong...

EDITORIAL 63 Ayurveda, a science with rich heritage has withstood the test The initiatives that integrates Ayurveda with Genomics by 4 5 of time for quite a long period in history of human Dr. Bhushan Patwardhan , Kalpana Joshi and the recent 6 civilization. The earliest known medical literature is on publication by Tav Pritesh Sethi have paved the way for Ayurveda, which itself emphasizes its ...

BACKGROUND Nowadays, plants have been considered as powerful agents for treatment of disorders due to their traditional use. Plants have a special role in the treatment of various diseases in Ayurveda. Liver disorders with their devastating outcomes have been discussed in Ayurveda as well. OBJECTIVES In the present study, polyherbal products (L52 and L38) were retrieved from Ayurveda and its ...