R&D in the field of AYUSH system in different areas such as drug development including quality assurance, pre-clinical safety evaluation and clinical research are being conducted at different levels such as Research Council under AYUSH, Academic institutions (both AYUSH and non AYUSH institutes such as Medical Colleges, Universities etc.) other Research organization such as ICMR, CSIR, etc. Further, research support is also being extended through grant under EMR vide Ministry of AYUSH, DST, DBT, ICMR etc. in the area of traditional medicine.
CCRAS developed three comprehensive and concise Guidelines focusing on drug development ( Standardization and quality assurance), safety/toxicity and clinical evaluation for ready reference of stakeholders. These Guidelines encompassed research practices generally to be adopted and followed by researchers in the field of AYUSH system such as research organizations, academic institutions and researchers seeking grant from EMR/IMR schemes of different funding agencies for research on AYUSH system, and would help the researchers while designing and formulating the proposals and also planning academic/industrial research in the field of AYUSH systems. The users may refer to other two documents for having an overall idea concerning drug development and R& D in this field.