Had Pharmacovigilance proved to be relevant for Ayurvedic drugs yet ?
Has these cases been reported and resolved upto a significant level ??
Specifically in India ??
The major goals of pharmacovigilance is to improve patient care and safety in relation to drug use, and thus promote rational drug use. Commercialization of Ayurveda medicine has brought with it many challenges about safe use of ayurvedic medicines, bringing into focus the need for formal pharmacovigilance programs in the field.
And yet, the number of adverse reactions to ayurvedic drugs reported or recorded in the National Pharmacovigilance Program in India is negligible. The strong belief that ayurvedic medicines are safe contributes to a large extent to this situation. To compound this matter is the lack of knowledge about the concept and importance of pharmacovigilance in ayurveda among ayurvedic practitioners.
Few recent publications may be referred:
- Article Pharmacovigilance of Ayurvedic medicines in India
Article Pharmacovigilance obligations of Ayurveda physicians and pharma sector
- Article Good Pharmacovigilance Practice: Accountability of Ayurvedic...
-Article Knowledge and Awareness of Pharmacovigilance among Ayurveda ...
Surely, Pharmacovigilance is relevant in Ayurveda. Ayurvedic drugs are safe and effective only if taken in prescribed dose and time limit. secondly, they are safe if prepared by following proper pharmaceutical process. Hence, its adverse effects may be seen if processed improperly and therapeutically used improperly.
Pharmacovigilance department is feasible in both alopathic & ayurvedic sciences specially in India. The myth of Ayurveda , less side effect than any other system of medicine ; on the other hand , modern medicine practitioner strongly criticize the Ayurvedic formulation is fully admixed with heavy metal natural plant substance also.
The belief of world oldest traditional medical system is sometimes badly criticize due to poor practices in context scientific documentation.
Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) is nothing but a functional national regulatory authority ; sometimes they had also gone to critical scanner stage to compel for clinical trial , etc (2015).
This is the era, true well known practitioner finding in both positive and negative (any formulation) which is traditionally scripted in Ayurvedic official book ; and visualize the data in LANCET type journal in Pharmacovigilance norm in Interdisciplinary way.
firstly i would like to tell you that the headquarter of pharmacovigilance center for ayurved is located in gujarat ayurved university jamnagar.
secondly, why pharmacovigilance is important?
Their are many incident in pharma industry for death of human being or disability of children because of drugs.
so exactly reporting the adverse effect of drugs is pharmacovigilance.
now come towards your question, every thing wriiten by our ancestor in ayurved is pure and correct. Their is no doubt for that but now a days their are some human error in company while preparing formulation. so their is problem in preparation of product by company, through which their are chances of some adverse effect.
so their is necessity of pharmacovigilace in ayurved also.
i repeat their is no doubt in shastrokta books and literature but their is problem of human error while preparing formulation.
i wil ask to our professor and tell you that can any incident happen in ayurved.
Note:- i written this answer because i completed one year course of clinical research education programme from modern college of pharmacy
Pharmacovigilance of Ayurvedic drugs are typically an important factor but meanwhile the less knowledge and insuffient information make this term more fergile.to understand of this term you should know about situation of standard quality of herbal drugs but india the government is highly responsible for mismangement.
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