REVIEW ON MAJOR MILDSTONES BY VARIOUS SCIENTISTS IN RECORDED HISTORY OF PHARMACEUTICAL FIELD ...

• Main Author: Varsha P. Rathod*, Nishan N. Bobade
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Indian; First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7829232; https://zenodo.org/record/7829232

Indian civilization developed a strong system of traditional medicine and was one of the first nations to develop a synthetic drug. In the post independence era, Indian pharmaceutical industry developed a strong base for production of generic drugs. Challenges for the future are to give its traditional medicine a strong scientific base and develop research and clinical capability to consistently produce new drugs based on advances in modern biological sciences. Indian civilization is one of the few in the world that developed a full- fledged system of traditional medicine. The approach of Indian traditional medicine, e.g., the ayurvedic system, is herbal based in general and is more effective for chronic diseases and prevention. Although modern medicine has found its own niche in India, traditional formulations are still widely used, and more and more scientifically validated formulations are appearing in the market. In recent times, many plants used in Indian system of medicine have been analyzed by modern ...