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Ayurvedic Medicine

Ayurveda Research Center,
Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital

In mid seventies of last century, Dr. SA Dahanukar, a pharmacologist by training and also by profession, perplexed with wealth in our ancient medical system, Ayurved started exploring the immense treasures of Ayurveda by people scientific research, especially for those diseases for which modern medicine cannot offer any curative measures. In the year 1980, Dr. RD Bapat, an eminent gastroenterology surgeon of institution, who had the similar inclination, decided to be associated with her in endeavor to generate clinical evidence to substantiate its potential. In 1989, because of the persistent efforts of both of them, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai granted permission to establish the Ayurveda Research Centre as a wing of Department of Pharmacology& Therapeutics. This is the first center in India to be established in the teaching institute of modern medicine with following objectives:

1. To validate claims put forth in Ayurveda for activities of plants and other therapeutic procedures by conducting experimental and clinical studies
2. To evaluate the concepts in Ayurveda in terms of contemporary science
3. To interpret Ayurvedic text which is in sutra form and establishing research methodologies
4. To train Ayurvedic physicians and students in research methodology.
5. To increase public awareness about the use and misuse of Ayurvedic therapies

This centre attracts funds from MCGM under separate head in its annual budget. Besides, corporation also bears the establishment expenditure of employing the staff required for growth of the Centre.

For the last 16 years, we at Ayurveda Research Centre are actively engaged in the research activities pertaining to our Traditional System of Medicine - Ayurveda. We too, like our founders and teachers, believe that there is a tremendous therapeutic wealth in the Indian system, which is based on sound principles of science. The need today is to validate the claims using modern scientific research methodology so that the evidence generated would be acceptable at global level. At the same time, it is also necessary to develop modern correlates for quality control criteria for the Ayurvedic drugs, detect adulteration, document adverse drug reactions and drug interactions with the modern drugs.

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