Research and Development 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 organizations such as ICMR, CSIR etc. Further, research support is also being extended through grant under Extra Mural Research (EMR) vide Ministry of AYUSH, DST, DBT, ICMR etc. in the area of traditional medicine.
These guidelines encompassed with research practices a y be suitably adopted and followed by investigators in the field of Ayurveda system such as Research organizations, academic institutions and Investigators seeking grant from schemes of different agencies funding for research on AYUSH system , would certainly help the investigators wile designing and formulating the proposals and also planning academic industrial research in the field of AYUSH systems. The users may refer other two documents for having an overall idea concerning drug development and R & Din this field.