Samyoga
Ayurveda represents a huge source of traditional knowledge of drugs, formulations developed in ancient times. Crossing the barrier of the time its relevance is continuing in-spite of changes in the environment, lifestyle, and culture also disease pattern. The philosophy of treating a system or body is gaining relevance as we develop from a reductionist approach to “systems” the approach in this post-genomic era. Yet our understanding of Ayurveda is only at its beginning. Rise of Combination therapies Multimodal treatments or multi-target approaches are increasingly applied to treat complex diseases in different disciplines of medicine–mainly based on empirical knowledge. There is a need to elucidate and define further the combinatory actions in the theoretical basis, experimental design and quantification of synergy at different dose and effect levels, including optimal combination ratios or sequences and the prevention of potential adverse events. Therefore, efforts shou...