D.M. Tripathi
Associate Professor
Title: Conferring the reproducibility, credibility and global acceptability to ayurvedic herbal drugs- the natural/traditional medicines, by validation, safety evaluation and clinical standardization for disease free and quality human life: A walking call to academicians across the world.
Biography
Biography: D.M. Tripathi
Abstract
Man remained eager and curious to live a disease free, better and quality life ever science the dawn of human civilization and eventually started looking towards the Mother Nature resulting in the advent of natural, traditional and alternative systems of health care and more appropriately as Ayurvedic System of health care. Ayurvedic Science, targeting disease free and quality life even without ayurvedic herbal drugs, was founded by our greatest sages, scholars and pennants based on their researches and realizations. It advocates the value of reasonable, seasonal and pro to body foods, exposure, thinking and actions as “Chaturangini Sena” to fight against diseases of all types thereby giving life style more value. Our body is the best drug/ pharma/biochemical industry synthesizing and secreting all that is needed for our wellness and better health. All these inputs resulted in conferring a disease free, better and quality life to human beings by enhancing the concept of vitality and Longevity.The amazing properties of ayurvedic herbal remedies as drugs, like Pro to body concept of action, holistic approach, principle of totality, eco-biofriendly innocuous nature, easy availability etc. enabled these therapeutic molecules as better choices for uses. However, with the passage of time, these Ayurvedic herbal drugs were realized to become unacceptable worldwide due to their slow acting nature and the problems of reproducibility, clinical validity, credibility and the global acceptability. All these shortcomings were being further fueled to fire due to great variations in therapeutic and clinical peculiarities of herbs because of several factors like altitudinal, latitudinal, geographical, seasonal, climatic and edaphic etc. This unexplored area of paramount research significance highly demands prompt, scientific and rational studies to confer these drugs high levels of credibility and reproducibility. To achieve these amazing qualities, an intensified and composite scientific plan of research execution appears to be the reality of the day.