Clinical Verification of Lesser Known Drugs

Abstract

Clinical verification of the pathogenesis in respect of fifty-eight lesser known drugs as available in various reference books has been carried out on a number of patients. The drugs selected for the programme include indigenous drugs (in use in the Ayurvedic system of medicine) and drugs proved under the aegis of the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, New Delhi. The symptoms of various drugs verified in large number of patients have been picked up to indicate reliable indications of the drug, fulfilling the long felt need of confirming the scanty and scattered symptom-complexes of the lesser known drugs. The additional symptoms obtained during the course, the drug(s) were verified upon the patients have also been compiled, thereby broadening the spectrum of pathogenesis of these drug(s). Certain surrogates among the indigenous drugs have also been observed, such as Abroma augusta folia for Bryonia alba, Cassia sophera for Rhus- tox, Aegle folia/marmelos for Nux vomica, etc.