Thursday, June 18, 2009

Patanjali Ayurved Limited

Patanjali Ayurved
A novel Pharmacogenomic way in Herbomineral Drug Research …

Patanjali Ayurved is a new approach to improve and accelerate the Herbomineral drug discovery and development process. Traditional knowledge and experience will serve as a powerful search engine and most importantly will greatly facilitate inventional, focused and safe natural products research to rediscover the drug discovery process at Patanjali Ayurved.

Ancient wisdom of Ayurveda has been the basis of modern medicine and will remain as one important source of future medicine and therapeutics at Patanjali Ayurved.

Patanjali Ayurved has excellent expertise & facilities for manufacturing & research- process development of Herbomineral preparations, Organic synthesis, isolation and structure elucidation, Biological screening,, toxicological testing and pharmacokinetics.

Patanjali Ayurved is keen to establish harmonization and validation of the complex process of Herbomineral therapeutics.

Patanjali ayurved aim to understand Ayurvedic concept of Prakruti from Pharmacogenomics perspective to provide a base for human classification, diagnostics and customized medicine.

Global trend leading to increased demands of medicinal plants for pharmaceuticals, phytochemicals, nutraceuticals, cosmetics and other products is an opportunity sector for Indian trade and commerce. Scientifically validated and technologically standardized Herbomineral preparations may be derived using safe path of reverse pharmacology approach based on traditional knowledge database. This may play a vital role in drug discovery, development and therapeutics, in addition to dealing with a typical Western bias against Ayurveda. Herbomineral drug technology includes all the steps that are involved in converting botanical materials into medicines, where standardization and quality control with proper integration of modern scientific techniques and traditional knowledge will remain important.

Herbomineral preparations may vary in composition and properties, unlike conventional phamacetuical products, which are usually prepared form synthetic, chemically pure materials by means of reproducible manufacturing techniques and procedures, correct identification and quality assurance of the starting material is, therefore, an essential prerequisite to ensure reproducible quality of Herbomineral preparations, which contributes to its safety and efficacy.

Patanjali Ayurved's effort is to establish and validate pharmacoepidimological evidence regarding quality, safety and practice of Herbomineral preparations (Ayurvedic medicine).

Patanjali Ayurved Limited

Introduction

Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. is located at plot no. D-38, Hardwar industrial area, . It is a planned centre for production of pure and effective, scientifically developed Herbomineral medicines. Param Pujya Swami Ramdev Ji Maharaj and Acharya Balkrishna Ji Maharaj founded the Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. in 2006 with a determined objective and vision to bring Ayurveda to world in scientifically approved form by amalgamation of science with ancient Ayurvedic wisdom.

This includes review of traditional Indian scientific texts, selecting and exploring effective authentic herbs and subjecting the formulations to modern Pharmacological, toxicological and safety tests to create safe and effective new products.

The metals are the starting points of Herbomineral preparations called Bhasmas and Rasas. Bhasmas are metals that go through a purification process that turns them into ash where as Rasas are Herbomineral materials that undergoes various traditional purification and detoxification processes and turn in to therapeutically active material.

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) report on heavy metal content in Ayurvedic medicines, along with Canada banning the import of Herbomineral preparations is giving the industry sleepless nights.

Indian Government has done very little work on validation of our ancient science. According to the Indian System of Medicine, the deficiency of essential minerals and metals could lead the life towards many diseases. The western world also relying upon this fact and their medicine system is also prescribe the use of metals in different forms for example: Iron, Calcium, Aluminium etc.

The modern medicine of cancer uses the active constituents of platinum as chemotherapeutic agent. So for the Govt. of India has not done the enough work for authentication, validation and research studies on the literature of ISM where as the ISM has been reliably practiced a successfully used since more than 5000 years.

Though everyone disagrees that Herbomineral medicines in general are toxic, there is a need for robust testing methods to prove the safety and efficacy of the age-old system of Indian medicine. The foundation of Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. Operation is the legacy of researching nature. Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. is dedicated to produce highest quality Herbomineral medicines which involves the rigorous process for raw, in-process and final production of drugs.

Even though bhasmas and heavy metals are an inherent part of the Ayurvedic system of medicine, there is a restriction on the amount of metal that is allowed in an Herbomineral preparations. Patanjali Ayurved Ltd is committed to follow the norms of national and international regulatory bodies and want to come out with a vision to produce the drugs in permissible limits for the four heavy metals. Final formulations of Patanjali Ayurved Ltd medicens are to be tested for four metals according to the ordinance. The four metals are Arsenic (As), Lead (Pb), Mercury (Hg) and Cadmium (Cd),” Previously not all this mandate of heavy metals testing was followed by the many manufactures, which is highly essential. Patanjali Ayurved Ltd has taken this challenge and committed to produce the Herbomineral preparations conforming to International Standards.

Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. Will also have a "need based" approach to research on medicinal plants including screening of plants for biological activity. Research efforts could thus be directed for a number of above-mentioned diseases for which suitable drugs are not available in the modern system of medicine and where Herbomineral preparations have a possibility of offering new drugs.

Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. is passionate in Clinical and Pre-clinical Research for Natural Therapeutic Agents or Nutraceuticals. Because of our understanding of the Natural Product chemistry, analysis and peculiar features of Herbomineral therapy, we are well placed in designing, overseeing and reporting drug trials involving natural products.

Patanjali Ayurved Ltd is capable to cater range of products all over the country viz. capsules, Bhasma, various extracts, Ghansatva, Eye- Drops, herbal Cosmetics Shampoo and Soap working in 3 shifts. The ultimate goal of “sarve santu niramaya” of Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. is met through the production of quality and standardized medicines, scientifically.
The following criteria for planning, Design, Construction of Pharmaceutical Unit are considered:

(1) Unit is designed to enable manufacturing and packaging of Herbomineral preparations.
(2) Expansion in capacity of plant can be easily adopted. The designs have adequate provisions capacity adjustment and increase.
(3) Units are designed for automatic and semiautomatic and manual operation.
(4) The design will fulfill GMP requirements for International Trade of various products.

Quality Policy

We at Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. are committed to produce best quality Herbomineral products and create a disease free society by promoting Yoga, Spirituality and Ayurveda with rituals and scientific knowledge.

Our goal is to achieve customer satisfaction through customer focus and continual improvement by effective implementation of “Quality Management System”.

Vision

Patanjali Ayurved Ltd. Situated at D-38 industrial Area, Haridwar was conceived with the objective of amalgamating the ancient wisdom of the Science of Ayurveda with the modern scientific techniques of Industrial Management, a novel and radical idea evolved under the sagacious stewardship of Param Pujya Swami Ramdevji and Vaidyaraj Acharya Balkrishaj Ji Maharaj.

The objective was further exalted with intention of distributing quality, tested and hygienic medicines with wide ranging cures to the largest section of populace at reasonable prices enabling the common citizen to avail their benefits.

Patanjali Ayurved Ltd wants to establish patanjali Ayurved as a science based, invent ional, problem-solving, natural and trusted for healthy lives.

Worldwide market development with in-depth and long team approach, maintaining at each step the highest ethical standards.

Objectives


Patanjali Ayurved Ltd, an ambitious service project to provide quality Ayuvedic products at minimum prices to the patients suffering from incurable diseases. This unit, well equipped with machines of advanced technology, manufactures quality Ayuvedic products on a large scale. Patanjali Ayurved Ltd Pharmacy, having one of its kind aseptic eye drop plant as per schedule M-1 of drugs & cosmetics act 1940,which is equipped with HEPA Filters, centrifuge of 9500 rpm and Micro filters of 0.1 micron size .This is the ambitious project in one of its kind in Uttarakhand to provide the 100 percent safe and accurate therapeutic products . Patanjali ayurved Ltd is also in the process to procure the ISO 9001 and WHO-GMP, GLP International certificates and NABL Certification for Research & Development Laboratory
· This pharmacy has been set-up with a view to amalgamate the ancient wisdom of Ayurved with modern scientific practices to manufacturing. The aim is to produce in high volumes quality-tested, hygienic Herbomineral preparations at reasonable prices.
· Patanjali Ayurved Ltd is set up with ultra modern equipments and machinery. The unit has a massive building with a covered area of more than 53000 sq. ft. The unit-2 near Maharishi Dayanand Gram, Patanjali Yog Peeth is planned to cater the cosmetic products division, production of sharbat, honey and chywanprash. The aim of both the units is to produce best Herbomineral preparations under good hygienic conditions and help to create a disease free society.

· The objective of the company is to establish, provide, maintain and conduct research laboratories and experimental workshops for scientific and technical research. To undertake and carry on with all scientific and technical research, experiments and tests of all kinds and to promote studies and research both scientific and technical investigation.

· The objective of the company is to provide for the welfare of employees or ex- employees of the company and the wives and families or the dependents or connections of such persons, by building or contributing to the building of houses, by grants of money, pensions, allowances, bonus or other such payments or contributing to the provident fund and other associations, institutions, funds or trusts