Standardization of Ayush Medical Prescriptions

Bengaluru, December 16, 2015: For practitioners of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy systems of medicine, there are provisions under Indian Medicine Central Council (IMCC) Act, 1970 and Homoeopathy Central Council (HCC) Act, 1973 respectively. Section 26 of IMCC Act, 1970 and Section 24 of HCC Act, 1973 provides for the statutory Councils to prescribe standards on professional Conduct, Etiquette and Code of Ethics for practitioners of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy systems. The same have been prescribed by the Central Council of Indian Medicines as Practitioners of Indian Medicine (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Code of Ethics) Regulations, 1982 for Ayurveda, Siddha, and Unani practitioners and by Central Council of Homoeopathy as Homoeopathic Practitioners (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Code of Ethics) Regulations, 1982 for Homoeopathy practitioners. Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine and Homoeopathy (PCIM&H) has been set up as an independent Autonomous Organization under Ministry of AYUSH at Ghaziabad U.P. for the development of Quality standards of ASU &H drugs.

The PCIM & H till date has published 600 monographs of Ayurveda Single drugs and 152 monographs of Ayurveda compound formulations, 298 monographs of Unani single drugs and 100 monographs of Unani compound formulations, 139 monographs of Siddha single drugs and 1016 Homeopathic monographs. These monographs contain details of identity purity and strength along with therapeutic uses and doses that are useful for prescription.

Most of the Ayurveda, Homoeopathy and Siddha Medicines are easily affordable, however cost of the medicine also depends upon the ingredients of the medicines. As per official records, there are in total 9044 Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy drug manufacturing units spread throughout the country. Moreover, as per Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940, Vaidyas and Hakims can also manufacture and dispense Ayurvedic, Siddha or Unani drug for the use of their own patients. Also there are 736538 ASU&H practitioners, 3631 AYUSH hospitals with 56805 beds and 26102 AYUSH dispensaries in the public sector as per the available records. Moreover, there are 541 teaching ASU&H hospitals available in the country.

Under AYUSH services component of centrally sponsored scheme of National AYUSH Mission (NAM) Government of India is providing financial assistance to States/UTs for supply of essential AYUSH medicines to the State Government AYUSH hospitals, Dispensaries and collocated AYUSH facilities at Primary health Centers (PHC’s), Community Health Centers (CHC’s) and District Hospitals (DHs). Independent Research councils have been set up by the Ministry i.e. Central Research Councils for Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathic drugs for specially for research in respective systems.

Corporate Comm India(CCI Newswire)