Subhose Varanasi, Srinivas Pitta, Narayana Ala
Indian Institute of History of Medicine, Osmania Medical College Building, Putlibowli, Hyderabad - 500 095.
Bull Indian Inst Hist Med Hyderabad. 2005 Jul-Dec;35(2):83-92.
Pharmaceutical is one of the allied branches of science, which is closely associated with Medical science. Today pharmaceutical chemistry and pharmacognosy are playing important role in treatment for a disease and its prevention. Herbal medicines are being used by about 80% of the world population mostly in the developing countries in the primary health care. There has been an upsurge in demand for the Phyto-pharmaceutical products of Ayurvĕda in western nations, because of the fact that the synthetic drugs are considered to be unsafe. Due to this many national and multinational pharmaceutical companies are now concentrating on manufacturing of Ayurvĕdic Phyto-pharmaceutical products. Ayurvĕda is the Indian traditional system of medicine, which also deals about pharmaceutical science. The Ayurvĕdic knowledge of the pharmaceutical science is scattered in Ayurvĕdic classical texts. Săranghadhara Samhita, which is written by Săranghadhara, explain systematically about the information of the Ayurvĕdic pharmaceutical science and also updated it. Industrialized manufacturing of Ayurvĕdic dosage forms has brought in new challenges like deviation from basic concepts of medicine preparation. Săranghadhara Samrhită the devout text on pharmaceutics in Ayurvĕda comes handy to solve such problems, as the methods described are very lucid and easy to follow.
制药学是科学的相关分支之一，与医学密切相关。如今，药物化学和生药学在疾病治疗及预防方面发挥着重要作用。世界上约80%的人口，主要是发展中国家的人口，在初级卫生保健中使用草药。由于合成药物被认为不安全，西方国家对阿育吠陀植物药产品的需求激增。因此，许多国内和跨国制药公司现在都专注于生产阿育吠陀植物药产品。阿育吠陀是印度传统医学体系，也涉及制药科学。阿育吠陀制药科学知识分散在阿育吠陀经典文献中。由萨兰加德哈拉撰写的《萨兰加德哈拉本集》系统地解释了阿育吠陀制药科学的信息，并对其进行了更新。阿育吠陀剂型的工业化生产带来了新的挑战，比如偏离药物制剂的基本概念。《萨兰加德哈拉本集》这部阿育吠陀药学的虔诚文本有助于解决此类问题，因为其中描述的方法非常清晰且易于遵循。
