CCRAS (ccras.nic.in): Desk Directory, Contacts and Services

Clinical research is defined as the systematic study of health and illness in human participants to generate evidence on the safety, efficacy, effectiveness, and quality of medical interventions. In contemporary biomedical sciences, it encompasses a broad range of study designs including observational studies, interventional trials, epidemiological research, and health services research aimed at improving prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and overall healthcare delivery.

The National Institute of Indian Medical Heritage (NIIMH), Hyderabad, houses a referral medico-historical library with 18691 books, back volumes of medico-historical journals, and medical manuscripts. The details are available on the e-Medical Heritage Accession Catalogue portal of NIIMH, Hyderabad. The institute also has a unique Medico-historical Museum with collections pertaining to all Ayush systems as well as bio-medicine. The institute also has facilities for digitization, conservation, and preservation of ancient manuscripts & rare books, and also expertise in the development of web-based tools for the dissemination of information.

The Ayurvedic medicines are broadly classified into 2 categories viz. i) classical Ayurvedic medicines which are manufactured in accordance with the formulae described in authoritative books of Ayurveda as specified in the First Schedule of Drugs & Cosmetics Act 1940, Rule 1945 and ii) Patent or proprietary Ayurvedic medicines which are manufactured containing ingredients mentioned in authoritative books of Ayurveda as specified in the First Schedule but not administered by parenteral route and also formulation not included in the authoritative books.

Fundamental research aims to generate evidence base on the basic concepts of Ayurveda in contemporary terms by the scientific innovations and prospects for the replacement of suppositions with the scientific reasoning and facts. It embodies the integration of the fields of conventional physiology, pathology, pharmacology and pharmaceuticals etc to Ayurveda to explore and revalidate the underlying concepts, principles and practices of Ayurveda in current perspectives using recent tools.

The Council has taken up various Public Health Research Programmes in order to provide Ayurveda Health care services to the door steps, thus imparting Ayurveda to the grass root level. Presently Council is executing following programmes