Friday, July 11, 2025
  • Home
  • About us
  • Privacy policy
  • Advertise with us
  • Contact us
Fii News Logo
No Result
View All Result
  • Tenders
  • Projects
  • Markets
  • Manufacturing
  • Investment
  • Technology
  • Exports
Newsletter
  • Tenders
  • Projects
  • Markets
  • Manufacturing
  • Investment
  • Technology
  • Exports
Fiinews
No Result
View All Result
Home Manufacturing

Innovative Approach Needed for Traditional Medicine

Fiinews by Fiinews
April 23, 2019
in Manufacturing, Special Reports
Reading Time: 2 mins read
A A
0
0
SHARES
10
VIEWS
LinkedinShare on Twitter

0:00

Internationalizing traditional medicines

PIB.
Kotecha and Dr Mande with singed MoU.

With growing interest of traditional medicines worldwide, there is a need of multipronged and innovative approaches for the acceptance of its science, according to Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, Ministry of AYUSH.

The combination of traditional healthcare and modern basic science also has a huge possibility to do innovative and path-breaking researches which can be used for the explanation of various basic concepts, he said after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Ministry of AYUSH and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),

Dr. Shekhar C. Mande, CISR Director General, signed the MoU on 22 April 2019.

Dr Mande appreciated the ongoing projects and programmes between the two organizations.

He called for enhancing the collaboration through joint R&D efforts ranging from fundamental science to validation and thereafter product development, will significantly help in the growth of the Indian contributions to this important sector, not only nationally but internationally as well.

Futuristic efforts of this inter-ministerial cooperation shall include pursuit of Data mining & analytics and Artificial Intelligence to enable and facilitate concepts such as “Traditional knowledge inspired drug discovery and development” and “Food as Medicine”.

Previously, CSIR jointly with Department of AYUSH (now Ministry) had developed the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), a globally recognized proprietary database on Indian systems of medicine for preventing bio-piracy and misappropriation of our traditional knowledge.

The constituent laboratories of CSIR and councils of the Ministry of AYUSH have also supported each other in the development of improved varieties and captive cultivation of the medicinal plants including rare, engendered and threatened (RET) species, Botanical Reference Standards and Pharmacopoeial standards, and Ayurgenomics, among many others.

In due cognition of the upward surge in the usage of herbal medicines and supplements globally, the endeavor of Ministry of AYUSH and CSIR today is to bring the organizations under an umbrella understanding for pursuing focused R&D efforts in the domain.

Under the MoU, both organizations will jointly to pursue:
R&D covering fundamental research; AYUSH specific diagnostic tools; Linking microbiome, gene expression and prakriti;
Multi-ingredient herbal formulations, including their standardization;
Exploring modern scientific methods for integration with traditional Indian Systems of Medicine (ISM);
Linking disease signatures;
Furthering the collaboration in preserving and protecting traditional knowledge related to the Indian systems of healthcare, through the existing TKDL platform;
and Development of international standardized terminologies (disease-morbidity codes) in Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani (ASU), Database on Medicinal plants, Foods, etc. fiinews.com

Tags: Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchMinistry of AYUSH
ShareTweetShare

Related Posts

FICCI
Manufacturing

Manufacturing: Framework on Drones by Sep-Oct

by Fiinews
July 6, 2025
0
16

Lt Gen Singh urged industry to invest more on component level R&D Lt Gen Rahul R Singh, Deputy Chief of...

Air Liquide
Manufacturing

Manufacturing: Air Liquide builds ASU-CFS

by Fiinews
July 5, 2025
0
13

Renard doubling production capacity in Gujarat Paris-headquartered Air Liquide is investing in a second Air Separation Unit (ASU) and a...

NITI Aayog

Manufacturing: India’s chemical sector faces challenges

July 5, 2025
21
Ericsson

Manufacturing: India benefits form global partners

July 2, 2025
18
Greenzo Energy

Manufacturing: Greenzo to invest in electrolyser

July 1, 2025
16
RRP S4E

Manufacturing: India to get Bulgarian technology

July 1, 2025
19
SBI YONO

POPULAR NEWS

  • Cristina Dnv

    Projects: Indian yards set to build green ships, says DNV expert

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Market: Indian-origin UGF scales heritage consumer brands globally

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Technologies: Royal Diamond sponsors aerspace Industries’ drones in UAE

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Investments: Foreign investors see India as long-term destination for fund placings

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Markets: Blue Dart maintains positive outlook on India

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0

Fiinews.com features through news articles on business opportunities in the Indian market for the benefits of foreigners. It is also a platform for international businesses to showcase through elaborate articles on their products & services to the Indian consumers and corporations exploiting industrialisation of the country.

7Clicks Media is a Singapore based Media & PR company offering over 100,000
impressions via our targeted communication strategy.

It is led by editor-in-chief Gurdip Singh who has worked over 45 years reporting on
Asian businesses.

Recent News

  • Project: Japanese delegation inspects DMIC progress
  • Project: Mindset change is critical for innovation
  • Project: 4,000% in installed solar capacity
  • Project: EV policies part of climate goals
  • Tech: ansrsource-ANSR reshape talent across India

Pages

  • About US
  • ADVERTISE ON FIINEWS.COM
  • CONTACT US
  • EVENTS
  • FII-NEWS.COM PDF ARCHIVE
  • Home
  • News
  • PRIVACY POLICY

Subscribe to Newsletter

  • About
  • Advertise
  • Careers
  • Contact us

© 2024 FIINEWS - Design and developed by 7clicksmedia.

No Result
View All Result
  • Tenders
  • Projects
  • Markets
  • Manufacturing
  • Investment
  • Technology
  • Exports

© 2024 FIINEWS - Design and developed by 7clicksmedia.