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ArticleJournal of Ayurveda and integrative medicine

Clinical trials in Ayurveda: Analysis of clinical trial registry of India.

Kannan Sridharan, Gowri Sivaramakrishnan

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Article in Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Ayurvedic Ingredients in Dermatology: A Call for Research.Journal of cosmetic dermatology · 2025
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  9. Ayurveda: (W)here is the evidence.Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicine
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  11. Clinical research in Ayurveda.Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicine
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kannan SridharanDepartment of Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji. Electronic address: skannandr@gmail.com.
Gowri SivaramakrishnanDepartment of Oral Health, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ayurveda is one of the complementary and alternative systems of medicine requiring generation of high quality evidence for rational practice. Evidence can be generated from study designs and the present study is an attempt to critically assess the registered studies in the field of Ayurveda from clinical trial registry of India. We found low number of trials conducted with more focus required on the quality of these studies to contribute to high quality evidence.

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Clinical trial registryComplementary and alternative medicineEvidence based medicineHerbal drugs

Identifiers

PMID27658912
PMCPMC5052373

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