Faculty of Pharmacy, Sri Ramachandra University in association with Society for Ethnopharmacology-Chennai chapter organized a National Seminar on “Pharmacovigilance of AYUSH drugs” on 19th January 2016, at Sri Ramachandra University. A session on need of pharmacovigilance in AYUSH drugs was discussed and the salient points are summarized.
In India, Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani (ASU) systems of medicine are considered to be the oldest system of medicines. They prescribe drugs of herbal, mineral, metallic and animal origin for the treatment of many diseases. Being time tested systems of medicine and majority of the drugs used by them are of herbal origin these systems are considered to be safe. The use of ASU medicines continues to expand rapidly across the world. The interest and demand for ASU system of medicine is day-by-day increasing both within India and abroad.
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