New Delhi: Homeopathy which is growing at the rate of 30 per cent annually in the country is still under cottage industry.  

Coimbatore: According to a study, Ayurvedic medicines have demonstrated clinically significant improvement in rheumatoid arthritis, at par with allopathic treatment, but with lesser side effects.

Cape Town: Researchers in Nigeria have found a natural painkiller from an extract of the poisonous shrub Jatropha curcas, also known as the ‘physic nut’, which has a mode of action different from conventional analgesics, such as morphine and other pharmaceuticals.

Ahmedabad: The number of ayurvedic and naturopathic clinics in Gujarat has risen significantly over the last two years, thanks to the increased preference of people to go for natural medication.

Pune: The city-based Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) has isolated marker compounds from important Indian medicinal plants, characterized them and documented their utility in standardising the plant extracts used in manufacturing herbal drugs.

New Delhi: Rajya Sabha passed the Indian Medicine Central Council (Amendment) Bill to include a traditional medicinal system popular in Himalayan regions-Sowa-Rigpa to the Government’s official Indian medicine list.