By Team Ayurved Sutra
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Trial of Ayurveda Drugs on Animals in the Offing
The first trial of Ayurveda medicines on animals for checking the safety of the drugs will be launched in Trivandrum soon. The clinical trial has been made mandatory for granting license to manufacturers and selling patented and proprietary medicines.
The trial, which will be the first in the country for Ayurveda products, will be conducted at CARe KERALAM Ltd (Confederation for Ayurvedic Renaissance- Keralam Limited), a public limited company established at Koratty in Thrissur.
A piece of comprehensive legislation would be enacted for clinical trials of Ayurveda products. The government had issued orders to conduct clinical trials in the Ayurveda College at Trivandrum, Tripunithura Ayurveda College and VPSV Ayurveda College, Kottakkal. There was a separate unit for testing Ayurveda products at the Drugs Testing Laboratory. Apart from this, there will be separate units for testing Ayurveda drugs in the five laboratories that are coming up in various parts of Kerala state. Only 30 to 40 per cent of medicinal plants are available in the State and the rest came from other states. In order to overcome this, the government has initiated a programme to cultivate such plants in schools.
