TOXICOVIGILANCE IN AYURVED: AN ANTICIPATED STIPULATION FOR DRUG SAFETY INVESTIGATION TOOL

*Sud Sushant, Sud Khyati and Mehta Mehul

ABSTRACT

India possesses a pair of poison centers to catch au fait about 1.39 billion population of India. Therefore, lot many poisoning cases are not reported as a result of limited resources. The concept of toxicovigilance encompasses the active detection, validation, and follow-up of clinical adverse events related to toxic exposures in citizenry. Toxicovigilance is genuinely a medical and not only a statistical approach to human toxicity issues. In contrast to epidemiology, toxicovigilance relies on the in-depth health measurement of acute or chronic intoxications on a classified basis, which needs comprehensive successively. Toxicovigilance is that the active process of identifying and assessing the toxic risks accessible during a community and evaluating the actions taken to cut back or eradicate them. Through toxicovigilance; not merely there's scope for Ayurved to hunt out a solution for toxicity issues, besides there's extensive scope for screening and regulating Ayurvedic formulations containing poisonous drugs of herbal/metal/mineral origin. Although the technical term “toxicovigilance” doesn't feature in Ayurvedic texts, its essence is highlighted in Agada Tantra.[1,2]

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