- Research Article
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- 10.9790/3013-034202933
Drug Designing An Ayurvedic Perspective
- May 01, 2013
- IOSR Journal of Pharmacy (IOSRPHR)
- Abhilash Mullasseril
The Computer Assisted Drug Designing and Discovery is an emerging area of Scientific research with great importance.The knowledge abstraction for achieving the goals of this research is not only limited to modern computational chemistry or pharmacy.The computational scientists are ready to widen their knowledge based on all branches of medicines and we can also find relevant and significant information from alternative medicines like ayurveda.This paper aims to correlate the modern drug discovery concept to the traditional Indian system of medicine known as Ayurveda.The computer assisted drug designing is the modern concept in which the concept of Artificial Intelligence is widely applied throughout the processes.The research for improvising methodologies adopted many terminologies from the different branches of knowledge and made the field more interdisciplinary in nature.The philosophical bases of the Ayurvedic concept of Aushadha and Tridosha theory of diagnosis are also found relevant in the field of modern drug discovery and development and are able to give new insights to the scientists and medicinal chemists.
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