ArticleJournal of Ayurveda and integrative medicine
Assessing the Ayurvedic prescribing trends on the basis of WHO drug use indicators.
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- Diabetes Management by Ayurvedic Practitioners Using a Clinical Guideline Versus Usual Practice: A Feasibility Cluster Randomized Trial in Nepal.Journal of diabetes research · 2026Trial
- Diabetes management using a clinical guideline versus usual practice: a feasibility trial-based qualitative study among Ayurvedic practitioners and patients in Nepal.Therapeutic advances in endocrinology and metabolism · 2026Article
- Ayurveda formulations: A roadmap to address the safety concerns.Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicineArticle
- Quality of Ayurvedic health care delivery in provinces of India: Lessons from essential drugs availability at State run Ayurveda dispensaries.Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicineArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAyurvedic prescriptions are often challenged for their rationality. Excessive use of proprietary medicines, rasa preparations, and samshodhana without any justification and deliverable benefits outweighing the other forms of safer, cheaper and less time consuming therapies is putting the Ayurvedic prescribing trends into question. In Ayurvedic practice, prescriptions are often individualized with substantial variability between the choices of drugs. Although being welcomed as an advanced approach of prescription writing by making it tailor made, this method also allows for lapses to creep in thus making it necessary to check common trends of prescribing in Ayurveda and to see whether it raises any caution.
objectivesThe objective of this study was to create a check for common trends of prescribing in Ayurveda and to see if such checks raise any caution. MATERIALS AND
methodsPresent study utilizes the WHO drug use indicators as a preliminary tool for analyzing Ayurvedic prescriptions.
resultsIt was found that with a small modification, this tool can help immensely in screening of Ayurvedic prescriptions.
conclusionBased on the results obtained through this study, it can be concluded that the WHO drug use indicators, with a small modification, can help in identifying the prescribing trends in Ayurveda and can also help in suggesting remedial measures in case certain anomalies are found.
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