Assessing the Ayurvedic prescribing trends on the basis of WHO drug use indicators
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2019-01
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Background: Ayurvedic prescriptions are often challenged for their rationality. Excessive use of proprietary medicines, rasa preparations, and samshodhana without any justification and deliverable benefits outweighing the other forms of safer, cheaper and less time consuming therapies is putting theAyurvedic prescribing trends into question. In Ayurvedic practice, prescriptions are often individualizedwith substantial variability between the choices of drugs. Although being welcomed as an advancedapproach of prescription writing by making it tailor made, this method also allows for lapses to creep inthus making it necessary to check common trends of prescribing in Ayurveda and to see whether it raisesany caution.Objectives: The objective of this study was to create a check for common trends of prescribing in Ayurveda and to see if such checks raise any caution.Materials and methods: Present study utilizes the WHO drug use indicators as a preliminary tool foranalyzing Ayurvedic prescriptions.Results: It was found that with a small modification, this tool can help immensely in screening of Ayurvedic prescriptions.Conclusion: Based on the results obtained through this study, it can be concluded that the WHO drug useindicators, with a small modification, can help in identifying the prescribing trends in Ayurveda and canalso help in suggesting remedial measures in case certain anomalies are found.© 2017 Transdisciplinary University, Bangalore and World Ayurveda Foundation. Publishing Services byElsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Ayurveda Prescribing Rational Indicators
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Rastogi Sanjeev. Assessing the Ayurvedic prescribing trends on the basis of WHO drug use indicators. Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine. 2019 Jan; 10(1): 12-17