Ancient Indian medicines to be patented in 5 foreign languages
November 30th, 2009 - 10:24 pm ICT by IANS ( 1 comment )New Delhi, Nov 30 (IANS) Medicinal formulations in the classical Indian texts of Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha are being transcribed and then would be patented in five international languages, including German and Japanese, to prevent their misappropriation, the Lok Sabha was informed Monday.
In a written reply, Minister of State for Health and Family Affairs S. Gandhiselvan said: “Medicinal formulations present in classical texts of Ayurveda, Unani, Siddha and Yoga in Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, Persian and Tamil Languages are being transcribed in patent application in five international languages - English, French, German, Spanish and Japanese for sharing with International patent offices, including United States Patent Office and European Patent Office.”
About 6,000 to 7,000 plants are estimated to be in use in the Indian systems of medicines, the Lok Sabha was informed Monday.
He said according to a study conducted by the National Medicinal Plants Board through the Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Tradition, 960 medicinal plants are in use in trade.
The minister said the department of AYUSH - or the department of Ayurveda, Yoga and naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and homoeopathy under the ministry - has established the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library in collaboration with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in the ministry of science and technology to prevent the misappropriation of traditional knowledge by multinational companies.
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March 12th, 2011 at 11:53 am
At South west India we are intersted to launch a medical college for muslim minority & other minority classes of India earliest with affiliation of AYUSH earlier.The project work is going on earliest ia budget of 40 crores with the help of tamilnadu government soon for traditional alternate medicine thename BHARATH INSTITUTE for ALTERNATE MEDICINE.TN.->S.INDIA.