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.
• Cultivation of medicinal plants including tissue culture
• Pharmacogonosy
• 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. National Ayurveda Dietetics Research Institute, Bangalore (Karnataka).
2. North Eastern India Ayurveda Research Institute, Guwahati (Assam).
3. National Research Institute for Ayurveda- Siddha Human Resource Development, Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh).
4. Ayurveda Regional Research Institute, Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh).
5. National Vriksha Ayurveda Research Institute, Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh).
6. Ayurveda Mental Health Research Institute, Nagpur (Maharashtra).
7. Regional Research Institute of Himalayan Flora, Tarikhet (Uttarakhand).
8. Ayurveda Research Institute for Mother and Child Health Care, Trivandrum (Kerala). 

No. of Survey Tours conducted: 1122
Herbarium Specimens collected: 2,00,000 approx.
Museum /Market samples collected: 3,557
Folk claims collected: 5,739
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 District (Orissa).
10. Medico-Ethno-Botany of Sonebhadra District.
11. Glimpses of Medico-Botany of Bastar District (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 herbs of Himalaya - A pictorial and herbaria guide.