Shivani Ghildiyal

• MD, PhD
• Associate Professor at All India Institute of Ayurveda New Delhi

BACKGROUND Rasayana (immunomodulator) is integral to Ayurveda and offers a significant understanding of longevity and health promotion. However, their integration into contemporary healthcare necessitates adapting them into modern dosage forms for ease of utility and broader dispensing. This study focuses on the pharmaceutical and analytical aspect...

Background: Indigenous medicines regularly suffer with quality controversies because of similar species or varieties, substituent, adulterants wrong identification and lack of availability of original herb. Objectives: In the search for authenticity of traditional medicine, seeds of four Fabaceae species, Abrus precatorius L., Pongamia pinnata (L.)...

The Covid pandemic and its management throughout from Ayush Advisories to the Setting up of the Covid Health Center (CHC), Testing center, Vaccination center, Call center, Post Covid OPD, and IPD - A while walk through the journey of All India Institute of Ayurveda New Delhi during Covid Pandemic from 2020 -2023

Background The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has negatively impacted the lives of people globally. To date, no specific treatment has emerged to combat the disease. Hence, there is an urge for immediate therapy against infections like COVID-19 through the inclusion of various traditional medicines including Ayurveda. Methods This retrospective stu...

Core of Ayurvedic healthcare includes well-balanced diet, use of safe nutraceutical and management of one’s lifestyle. According to Ayurvedic principle, life is sustained on the tripod of mind, body and spirit (Tridanda), where manas (the mind), plays an important role in monitoring the essence of life. This article focuses on ayurvedic perspecti...

Foods containing various nutrients are consumed by all living being, undergo metabolic process in the gastroin-testinal tract (GIT) where agni plays an important role. The concept of agni and digestion has been systematically explained in Ayurveda. The word Agni literally means fire, however, in Ayurveda it represents various elements that influenc...

Contact Dermatitis (CD) is the reactive eczematous inflammation of the skin. CD is caused by various daily substances such as shampoos, cleansers, moisturizers, nail polish, dye gloves, and different shoe materials. Allergic Contact Dermatitis (ACD) is a type of dermatitis caused by allergic substances. It has symptoms such as itching and redness w...

The herb Gojihva is enumerated in Ayurveda as a Shaaka (vegetable) and is also a medicine in the management of various diseases. The official source of Gojihva is as per Ayurvedic Pharmacopeia of India is Onosma bracteatum Wall. However, at present many botanical sources, Caccinia glauca Savi. , Trichodesma indicum R.Br., Elephantopus scaber L., La...

Introduction: Quality, safety, and efficacy are the three main components of any therapy used for disease cure. Ayurveda encompasses vast knowledge regarding the use of numerous herbal sources for disease management. Sphaeranthus indicus Linn. (Known as Mundi) is one such drug praised in classical as well as contemporary medicinal science for its t...

Chronic wounds are defined as wounds that fail to heal through normal phases of healing. Chronic wounds are becoming challenge for medical science due to its psychological and economic burdens. In Ayurveda, chronic wounds have close resemblance with Dustha-vrana. Various herbs, minerals-metals and formulations were described in classics for managem...

Background: In Sushruta Samhita, various medicinal plants as single and compound formulations having Vrana-Shodhana (wound cleansing) and Vrana-Ropana (wound healing) potential are enumerated. There are no published data available on these wound-healing medicinal plants of Sushruta Samhita. The effectivee management of wound is necessary in the im...

Objective The world continues to face the COVID-19 crisis, and efforts are underway to integrate traditional medicine interventions for its effective management. The study aimed to determine the efficacy of the “AYURAKSHA” kit in terms of post-interventional percentage of COVID-19 IgG positivity, immunity levels, and quality of life (QoL) against C...

Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), caused by coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a severe acute respiratory syndrome that breeds mental fatigue. WHO has raised concerns on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health. However, the psychological aspect of affected people remains relatively unexplored. Isolations, social distancing, closure of educational inst...

Context: As the increasing herb-drug interactions have posed many questions about the safety and efficacy of concomitant use of many herbs and drugs. An attempt has been made to study the effect of Jamun (Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels) seed powder (JSP) and metformin in diabetic rats

Context: As the increasing herb-drug interactions have posed many questions about the safety and efficacy of concomitant use of many herbs and drugs. An attempt has been made to study the effect of Jamun (Syzygium cumini (L.) Skeels) seed powder (JSP) and metformin in diabetic rats. Aim: Interaction between JSP and Metformin Settings and Design: Da...

Background:-Post COVID complications involve multiple organs, systems and presents as Chronic fatigue syndrome, Pulmonary embolism, Diabetes mellitus and many diseases even after recovery from COVID. The exact pathogenesis of post covid complications is not clearly understood and only the symptomatic treatment is provided by conventional medicinal...

COVID-19's impact on mental health is one of the areas of expertise where academics have attempted to make difficulties and experiences evident. Over the last several years, the amount of academic and scientific literature on the subject has grown dramatically. Bibliometric analysis gives you a broad picture of what's going on in terms of productio...

Present article gives review of less explored drug called Gorakhmundi (Sphaeranthus indicus Linn) for its psychoneurimmunological activity

Context: SARS-CoV-2 is a global public-health concern. Interventions to prevent infection are urgently needed. The anti-inflammatory and antiviral effects of neem make it a potential agent for COVID-19 prophylaxis. Objective: The study intended to evaluate the prophylactic effects of neem capsules for persons at high risk of COVID-19 infection d...

The emergence of antibiotic resistance and the evolution of new strains of disease causing agents, are of highly concern to the global health community. Plants are potential source of antimicrobial agents. They have been used traditionally for prevention of infections caused by micro-organisms. Description of Krimighana herbs enumerated in Ayurveda...

Introduction: COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2 or novel corona virus is declared as a global emergency. Researchers are working hard to develop effective remedy and vaccine, but still the challenge to manage the spread and disease progression is existing. In Ayurveda, a good number of herbs are ascribed for health promotion and longevity; many of the...

Hydrodynamically Balanced systems have wide development as they have achieved the parameters of modern drug delivery system, it is a type of system which owes very tremendous and curative benefits for the delivery of oral controlled release dosage forms and have wide properties in many aspects such as its main role is to maintain the effective conc...

Diabetes is one among the various lifestyle disorders and was reported to be 7th leading cause of death by the WHO in 2016. To manage blood glucose levels and combat associated medical conditions, polypharmacy is becoming the choice of treatment by diabetics. Due to the unawareness of diabetics regarding the polypharmacy, it was thought to gather t...

Aim To compile and critically analyze the Medohara, Lekhana and Karshana drugs mentioned in Nighantus with special reference to the management of obesity with promising results. Background Due to sedentary lifestyle and unwholesome food habits there is an ascending graph of obesity in India and worldwide. Although contemporary science has made eff...

Introduction Laghupanchamula is a compound formulation prepared by combinations of roots of five herbs. Two variants of Laghupanchamula have been described in Ayurvedic classics where beside four common herbs fifth one is either Gokshura ( Tribulus terrestris L.) or Eranda ( Ricinus communis L.). The objective of the study is to make comparison bet...

Objective: Recently, we observed wound healing activity of 50% ethanol extract of Mallotus philippinensis Muell. Arg (MP) fruit hairs extract (MPE). In several intestinal infections, localized inflammation is of common occurrence and hence we evaluated the anti-inflammatory, analgesic and hypnotic activity of MPE in different rat experimental mode...

Background: Wounds affect a large number of patients and seriously reduce the quality of life. The wound as a medical problem was first discussed by Maharshi Agnivesha in Agnivesha Samhita (later known as Charaka Samhita) as Vrana. Laghupanchamula denotes a combination of the roots of five herbs. However, in Ayurvedic classics, besides four common...

Mallotus philippinensis Muell. Arg (MP, Euphorbiaceae) are widely distributed perennial shrub or small tree in tropical and subtropical region in outer Himalayas regions. Since, Mallotus philippinensis have been shown to have a number of medicinal values. Hence our present study was to investigate the healing potential of fruit extract in rat wound...

Background: Mallotus philippinensis Muell. Arg (MP, Euphorbiaceae) are widely distributed perennial shrub or small tree in tropical and subtropical region in outer Himalayas regions. Since, Mallotus philippinensis have been shown to have a number of medicinal values. Hence our present study was to investigate the healing potential of fruit extract...

Background: In Ayurvedic classics, two types of Laghupanchamula -five plant roots (LP) have been mentioned containing four common plants viz. Kantakari, Brihati, Shalaparni, and Prinshniparni and the fifth plant is either Gokshura (LPG) or Eranda (LPE). LP has been documented to have Shothahara (anti-inflammatory), Shulanashka (analgesic), Jvarahar...

into existence with the passage of time containing four common plants viz. Kantakari (Solanum surratense Burm f.), Brihati (Solanum indicum Linn.), Shalaparni (Desmodium gangeticum DC.), and Prinshniparni (Uraria picta Desv.) with either Gokshura (Tribulus terrestris Linn.), advocated in Charaka Samhita, [8] and Chikitsa Granthas like "Chakradatta"...

The fruit pulp of Cassia fistula Linn. is known to have purgative properties. A specific process, i.e., keeping well ripe fruits buried within sand for seven days and then drying in sun prior to its medicinal use, has been mentioned in Charaka Samhita. To explore the effect of above classical processing, a comparative physiochemical and phytochemic...

The article presents the development of a DSP based signal acquisition and processing system for Fiber Optic - Extrinsic Fabry-Perot Interferometric (EFPI) sensors. It focuses on the implementation of a Wavelet-Hilbert Transform based EFPI cavity length estimation algorithm on DSP hardware. The proposed sensor system is based on White Light Interfe...

Laghupanchamula denotes combinations of roots of five herbs. However, in Ayurvedic classics besides four common herbs viz. Kantakari, Brihati, Shaliparni, and Prinshniparni, the fifth one is either Gokshura (Laghupanchamula with Gokshura LPG) or Eranda (Laghupanchamula with Eranda LPE), and both formulations have been documented to have shothahara...

The paper presents advances in the processing technique based on transform domain methods for performance enhancement of extrinsic Fabry–Perot interferometric (EFPI) sensors. The paper introduces a new technique to estimate the cavity length from the instantaneous phase. Pre-processing of the EFPI spectrum signal is proposed using wavelet transform...

Objective To explore a detailed pharmacognostic study of the rhizome of Hedychium spicatum Ham-ex-Smith (Zingiberaceae), a plant species which is commonly used in preparation of indigenous medicine.Methods The macroscopy, microscopy, quantitative analysis, extractive values in ethanol and water, phytochemical screening, TLC and HPTLC of aqueous and...

To explore a detailed pharmacognostic study of the root of Uraria picta Desv. (Family-Papilionaceae), a plant species which is commonly used in preparation of indigenous medicine. The macroscopy, microscopy, quantitative analysis, extractive values in ethno and qualitative phytochemical screening were investigated. Antimicrobial activity was perfor...

Cassia fistula (CF) is known as Aragvadha (disease killer) in Ayurvedic classics and its Sun-dried (SD) fruit pulp has been advocated for the treatment of constipation, fever, leprosy, diabetes, intestinal disorders and wounds. Present study includes the evaluation of SD and non-Sun dried (NSD) fruit pulp of CF for purgative action in rat and acute...

A group of five roots of small plants i.e., Shalaparni, Prshniparni, Brhati, Kantakari and Gokshura or Eranda is known as Laghupanchamula under Mishraka Varga (group of drugs). It is used as such or with Mahat Panchamula i.e., Bilva, Gambhari, Shyonaka, Agnimantha and Patala, constituting Dashamula, a well recognized and popular Ayurvedic preparati...

Hedychium spicatum (Ham-ex-Smith), known as Shati in Ayurvedic classics, is documented for the treatment of cough, hiccough, fever and asthma. The present study includes the evaluation of aqueous and ethanolic extracts of the dried rhizome of H. spicatum for anti-histaminic and ulcer-protective activities in guinea pig (GP), anti-inflammatory and a...