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Dr. Abhay Gandhi

THREATENED MEDICINAL PLANTS IN AYURVEDIC PRACTICE: A REVIEW OF CONSERVATION STATUS, TRADE PRESSURE AND SUBSTITUTION STRATEGIES FOR PHARMACOPOEIAL DRUGS

Ayurvedic manufacturing depends on a large volume of plant raw material, much of it collected from the wild. A national assessment recorded 1,178 medi...

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Dr. Jalpa Gandhi

RITU AND KALA OF COLLECTION: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF CLASSICAL GUIDELINES AND EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE ON SEASONAL VARIATION IN THE QUALITY OF AYURVEDIC RAW DRUGS

Ayurvedic texts lay down detailed rules for collecting medicinal plants, specifying the region, season, plant part and maturity at which each drug sho...

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Tushar Tapadiya

PLANT-PART SUBSTITUTION AS A CONSERVATION STRATEGY FOR AYURVEDIC DRUGS: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF COMPARATIVE PHYTOCHEMICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL STUDIES

Many Ayurvedic drugs use roots, root bark, rhizomes or heartwood, parts whose harvest kills the plant or seriously damages it. Plant-part substitution...

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Dr. Abhay Gandhi

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CHEMINFORMATICS IN DRAVYAGUNA RESEARCH: CURRENT APPLICATIONS, DATA RESOURCES AND LIMITATIONS

Artificial intelligence (AI) and cheminformatics are increasingly applied to Ayurvedic pharmacology. Curated phytochemical databases, target-predictio...

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Dr. Jalpa Gandhi

NIGHANTU LITERATURE AND DRUG IDENTITY OVER TIME: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF NOMENCLATURE SHIFTS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR MODERN AYURVEDIC RESEARCH

Nighantus are the lexicons of Ayurvedic materia medica. From the Dhanvantari Nighantu, usually dated to the eighth to tenth centuries, to the Bhavapra...

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