Books by Balvinder Singh

Ayurvedic and herbal approaches for cancer treatment are very popular among Indian patients. Ayurveda is made of two Sanskrit words: Ayu which means life and Veda which means knowledge. Rasayanas literally means ¿the path of juice¿ or ¿juice incorporate¿ are group of complex herbal drug preparations widely used in Ayurveda to improve the general health of body. These have immunostimulatory effect. They are not directly cytotoxic to tumor cells but have shown to inhibit the growth of ascites and solid tumor in mice. Rasayans could increase survival. Rasayans also reduce myelosuppression in patients receiving chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

The changing life style & environmental conditions have predisposed common man towards numerous diseases. Exploration of indiäs rich natural resources for the search of pharmacologically active constituents dates back to several thousands of years has documented in the religious scriptures of that period. Some of the discoveries of those days have found their applications in modern western medicines. To bring this drug into the market a proper clinical validation is required without this these cannot be accepted in international market. UK is hub of this type of medicine from plant sources frequently used by locality and mostly prescribe by unauthorized medical practitioners. People get cured sometimes meracuresly but the data is not valid in international scenario in terms of that drugs. In nutshell human trials have been performed without animal trials. Fulfillment of this lacuna by defining the clinical trials on animal models will be the aim of this write up.