10.01.21
The California-based American Herbal Pharmacopoeia (AHP) has reached a memorandum of understanding with the Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicine and Homeopathy (PCIM&H) and specifically with the Ministry of AYUSH, a leading organization in India which supports the development of Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha, Homeopathy and Naturopathy.
The memorandum of understanding outlines a number of areas of mutual interest, including: fostering the adoption of Ayurveda standards for market authorization of Ayurveda products in the U.S.; the development of monographs of ayurvedic and other traditional herbal products; an exchange of technical data for the development of monographs between the parties; the development of training and capacity-building programs for Indian traditional medicine; an exchange of herbarium specimens, botanical reference samples, and phytochemical reference standards; and the development of a digital database on Ayurveda and other Indian traditional medicine products and herbal products.
“This is both a milestone for AHP and for Ayurveda in North America,” AHP President Roy Upton said. “Collaborations such as this should be the norm in furthering medicinal plant knowledge specifically to enhance public health options. We hope the Ayurvedic community in North America will embrace this collaboration so we may pool resources to raise awareness about the value of Ayurveda in public health.”
“The collaboration between AHP and AYUSH to work toward advancing the confidence of Ayurveda and other traditional medicine systems of India to the global community is a great initiative,” Professor Pulok Kumar Mukherjee, director of the Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, a government institute that leads research of Ayurvedic herbal medicine, said. “The successful collaboration that resulted in the AHP Triphala Monograph and Therapeutic Compendium was a success both for India and the international community overall and is an example of how valuable such collaboration can be. I am sure future collaborations between AHP and AYUSH will result in increased awareness and understanding of traditional herbal medicines and establish the foundation for quality control in a way that will allow these herbal medicines to be better integrated into national health care policies.”
The memorandum of understanding outlines a number of areas of mutual interest, including: fostering the adoption of Ayurveda standards for market authorization of Ayurveda products in the U.S.; the development of monographs of ayurvedic and other traditional herbal products; an exchange of technical data for the development of monographs between the parties; the development of training and capacity-building programs for Indian traditional medicine; an exchange of herbarium specimens, botanical reference samples, and phytochemical reference standards; and the development of a digital database on Ayurveda and other Indian traditional medicine products and herbal products.
“This is both a milestone for AHP and for Ayurveda in North America,” AHP President Roy Upton said. “Collaborations such as this should be the norm in furthering medicinal plant knowledge specifically to enhance public health options. We hope the Ayurvedic community in North America will embrace this collaboration so we may pool resources to raise awareness about the value of Ayurveda in public health.”
“The collaboration between AHP and AYUSH to work toward advancing the confidence of Ayurveda and other traditional medicine systems of India to the global community is a great initiative,” Professor Pulok Kumar Mukherjee, director of the Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development, a government institute that leads research of Ayurvedic herbal medicine, said. “The successful collaboration that resulted in the AHP Triphala Monograph and Therapeutic Compendium was a success both for India and the international community overall and is an example of how valuable such collaboration can be. I am sure future collaborations between AHP and AYUSH will result in increased awareness and understanding of traditional herbal medicines and establish the foundation for quality control in a way that will allow these herbal medicines to be better integrated into national health care policies.”