COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF KRIMIGHNA DRUGS MENTIONED IN THE AYURVEDIC PHARMACOPOEIA OF INDIA

  • *Kurele Rajeev kumar Manager QC, QA and F&D, Person-in-charge, AYUSH DTL (Govt. Approved Lab.), Indian Medicines Pharmaceutical Corporation Limited, Mohan, Ramnagar, Almora, Uttrakhand
  • B Srinivasulu Reader, Kunwar Shekhar Vijendra Ayurved Medical College and Research Centre, Gangoh, Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh
  • KS Rohit Research Officer (RO), RARISD (CCRAS, Govt. of India Unit) Ahmedabad
  • Pawar Gajanan Research Officer (RO), RARI (CCRAS, Govt. of India Unit) Jhansi
  • Sharmavipin Dr Research Officer (RO- SII), Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, New Delhi
  • Dhiman KS Director General, Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, New Delhi
Keywords: Ayurveda, Krimighna, Antimicrobial, API (Ayurvedic Pharmacopeia of India).

Abstract

Ayurveda is the science of life having wide description of Krimighna dravya in its literature. Ayurvedic pharmacopeia of India published by the Ministry of AYUSH is a monograph of single drugs; which is very popular for all stack holder of Ayush system of medicines. This article details the review of single drugs mentioned in API part I (Vol I to VI) and their screening for Krimighna (antimicrobial) properties. Present article also aims for validating classical fact with published scientific research work. Authors searched 54 drugs out of 519 single drugs described in the API & it was found most of Ayurvedic Krimighnadravya were recognized for having antimicrobial property which was established through various Preclinical & clinical work carried out by the scientific community. Authors collected data with references to validate API drugs having antimicrobial property. All screened content can be taken for various high-tech research work by various students in MD, PhD or in the various other project of CSIR, DST, EMR project of CCRAS for further development of new drugs and conversion of available drugs to latest dosage form.

Published
04-07-2017
How to Cite
Rajeev kumar, *Kurele, Srinivasulu, B., Rohit, K., Gajanan, P., Dr, S., & KS, D. (2017). COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF KRIMIGHNA DRUGS MENTIONED IN THE AYURVEDIC PHARMACOPOEIA OF INDIA. International Journal of Ayurveda and Pharma Research, 5(6). Retrieved from https://ijaprs.ijraps.in/index.php/ijapr/article/view/688
Issue
Vol 5, Issue 6: June 2017
Section
Review Articles

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