Description
Ayurveda or "the sacred knowledge of longevity" has been practiced in India and many Asian countries since time immemorial. Interest in Ayurveda started growing all over the world in the late 1970s, following the Alma Ata Declaration adopted by the W.H.O. in 1978. Ayurveda in the New Millennium: Emerging Roles and Future Challenges attempts to survey the progress made in this field and to formulate a course of action to take Ayurveda through the new millennium. It also identifies the many stumbling blocks that need to be removed if Ayurveda is to cater to the needs of a wider audience.
Features:
- Newer insights into the history of Ayurveda
- Regulatory aspects of the manufacture of ayurvedic medicines
- Industrial production of traditional ayurvedic medicines
- Quality control
- The scientific rationale of single herb therapy
- Biological effects of ayurvedic formulations
- Optimization of ancient wisdom and newer knowledge
- Conservation of threatened herbs
- Nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals from Ayurveda
- Critical view of Ayurveda in the West
- Direction for the Ayurveda renaissance
Ayurveda in the New Millennium: Emerging Roles and Future Challenges describes the strength of Ayurveda and how to usher in the Ayurveda renaissance. This book will be of interest to proponents of Ayurveda and all branches of traditional and alternative medicine. Experts from the fields of medicine, pharmacology, new drug discovery and food technology will also find it useful.
Table of Contents
Preface
About the Editor
Contributors
Chapter 1 What We Learn from the History of Ayurveda
N.K.M. Ikbal, D. Induchoodan and D. Suresh Kumar
Chapter 2 Manufacture of Ayurvedic Medicines – Regulatory Aspects
V. Remya, Alex Thomas and D. Induchoodan
Chapter 3 Industrial Manufacture of Traditional Ayurvedic Medicines
Nishanth Gopinath
Chapter 4 Quality Control of Ayurvedic Medicines
V. Remya, Maggie Jo Alex and Alex Thomas
Chapter 5 Scientific Rationale for the Use of Single Herb Remedies in Ayurveda
S. Ajayan, R. Ajith Kumar and Nirmal Narayanan
Chapter 6 Biological Effects of Ayurvedic Formulations
G.R. Arun Raj, Kavya Mohan, R. Anjana, Prasanna N. Rao, U. Shailaja and Deepthi Viswaroopan
Chapter 7 Evidence Building in Ayurveda: Generating the New and Optimizing the Old Could Be Strategic
Sanjeev Rastogi, Arindam Bhattacharya and Ram Harsh Singh
Chapter 8 Conservation – A Strategy to Overcome Shortages of Ayurveda Herbs
S. Noorunnisa Begum and K. Ravikumar
Chapter 9 Lessons to Be Learnt from Ayurveda: Nutraceuticals and Cosmeceuticals from Ayurveda Herbs
Prachi Garodia, Sosmitha Girisa, Varsha Rana, Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara and Bharat B. Aggarwal
Chapter 10 Ayurveda in the West
Atreya Smith
Chapter 11 Ayurveda Renaissance – Quo Vadis?
D. Suresh Kumar
Index
