She has also asked to publish the detailed pharmacopoeia, a book describing the detail the properties, action, use, dosage, and standards of impact and purity of medicine with articles on their preparation and employ for plateful the common men as this means of medicine is not apart forceful in treating the disease but besides very cost effective.

E-mail Article Printer Friendly Text-Size Speaking on the award of Pandit Ramnarayan Vaidya Puraskar avail at Rashtrapati Bhavan on May 20, Pratibha said, "Such efforts would give a boost to the exports of Ayurvedic medicine."

The Ayurvedic medicine step has many advantages, which need to be brought out and made known to the people in a more active way. Ayurvedic products must establish their identity, as it is an affordable system championing the economically weaker group of society," said president.

She emphasised on popularising this system among Indians besides boosting the exports of Ayurveda products. For this, experts will gain to make more efforts to standardising the products and their patenting.

The publishing of Ayurveda pharmacopoeia will also delight the authority and scholars of Ayurveda that will pave the pathway of popularising this medicament system, as per head of the state cited.

Describing about her foreign visit to Brazil, Mexico and Chile last month, president said that during her discussions with the head there, she spoke about the Ayurvedic system of medicine and presented CDs with details. She told the superior about the characteristics of Ayurvedic medicines and its importance for common man.

The leaders of the hosting nations had appreciated her for her presenting and information about Ayurvedic medicines’, as president said in the released statement. The President has awarded Ayurveda scholar H S Kasture for the year 2003 and Suresh Kumar Chaturvedi for 2004 followed by Ayurveda scholar R H Singh for 2005, Mayaram Uniyal for 2006 and T L Devraj for 2007.

These awards have been given to them for their remarkable contributions in Ayurveda field. RELATED STORIES President asks for 'standardising' the Ayurvedic system.

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Omar Quayyam, about leucoderma, centuries ago. Perhaps he had in his mind, the severe suffering, community stigma and the emotional emphasis that these patients had to undergo. It is indeed unlucky that even after centuries after his statement, patients of leucoderma still undergo so much stress and stigma.

Even today, in the period of modern medicine, when many new effective treatments are available, these patients suffer collective embarrassment, find it bothersome to get married, gain difficulty getting proper jobs and suffer countless misery. Depressed and frustrated, they tend to look for isolation.

All this championing a infection which origin no bodily harm except transform of colour and which can be treated effectively if help is sought at beforehand stage! What is leucoderma? The medical name for leucoderma (leucos means white; derma means skin) is vitiligo.

It is a affliction caused by destruction of cells called melanocyte in skin, which assemble the pigment melanin decision-making representing our skin colour. Loss of this pigment conducts to white patches in different parts of the thing - there are no other symptoms associated with it.

It can occur at any age. Why the stigma? The social stigma seen about the malady is seen mostly in the Indian subcontinent, but not so much in other countries. The reasons for this are: The white patches are more obvious and prominent on the brown-black Indian skin; in Western white skin, the disease is not taken seriously as it is not very obvious and apparent.

Erroneous axiom that it is infectious Erroneous belief that it is always inherited and that all the members of the family would also bias the ailment (and hence the fear of marrying such a person) Erroneous assumption that it always spreads to all on the body Inaccurate belief that there is no action towards for the illness Leucodarma is not infectious.

It is not contagious and does not spread from adult to person. In ancient Ayurveda, the disease was referred to as ‘Shwetha kushta’ seeing of the immaculate patches.

This unfortunate and incorrect lingo is devolving on for all the more of the suffering of vitiligo patients. Leucodarma is not connected to leprosy. Leucoderma is believed to be the result of antibodies produced by the body against pigment-producing melanocytes causing their destruction.

Environmental toxic substances such as phenolic chemicals in rubber and plastic industry may also be responsible for the death of these cells. Vitiligo is always hereditary This is another misconception in the lay public, that vitiligo is at all times hereditary, which be in want of to be corrected. Only 30% of vitiligo cases show hereditary background.

In the majority of patients, there is no kinfolk history. Even if one male in a family is affected, in most patients, other fellow of the kith and kin do not get the disease. For this reason, there is no bar for these patients to get married and lead a normal life like any other person.

Vitiligo causes harm to patients Vitiligo does not affect any other organ in the body. These patients are otherwise healthy. Leucoderma disperse all upon the body No, in most cases, leucoderma does not spread all above the body. It is important to note that there are different types of vitiligo which behave differently.

From http://deccanherald.com/content/may172008/living200805166829~.asp

In an aspiration to make the complementary medicine manufacturing units to grow into Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) compliant, Department of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homeopathy drugs (AYUSH) will be spending Rs 26 crore towards superiority control.

The department testament be funding for upgrading the existing community testing laboratories and and hand set up new inhouse quality curb labs championing GMP compliance using standards of USFDA or WHO guidelines, AYUSH's joint secretary Shiv Basant told PTI.

The Department initially allocated Rs 26 crore and whether the manufacturers change their mind-set to improve the standards and merit of their products to world standards, "we are ready to allocate more money," he said.

We have asked the manufacturing element to apply representing funds and the process is on. Depending on the response, we will definitely increase the allocation," he added. There are 8000 manufacturing constituent are in the country.

The department is also encouraging common testing labs for smaller Ayush manufacturing units where a swarm of 15 to 20 units can have a common quality containment labs and common facility for GMP compliance, he said.

Separate amount will also be drained on familiar facilities for raw stuff standardisation and quality control of finished products at situation having cluster of Ayush industries.

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