India 2018

Health and Family Welfare 307
National Medicinal Plants Board
National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB) is an apex national body which coordinates
all matters relating to medicinal plants sector in the country. The Board
was established in 2000 and acts as advisory body to the concerned ministries,
departments and Agencies in strategic planning of medicinal plants related
initiatives and to plan and provide financial support to programmes relating to
conservation, cultivation and also all round development of medicinal plants
sector.
AYUSH Services
The National AYUSH Mission (NAM) is a turning point as it inter-alia envisages
better access to AYUSH services through increase in number of AYUSH hospitals
and dispensaries, ensure availability of AYUSH drugs and trained manpower.
It also aims at Improvement in quality of AYUSH Education through
enhancement in the number of upgraded educational Institutions, sustained
availability of quality raw materials and improved availability of quality
Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy (ASU &H) drugs through increase
in number of pharmacies, setting up of drug laboratories in the states which are
responsible for enforcement mechanism of ASU &H drugs.
AYUSH Pharmacopoeial Laboratories
(i)
Pharmacopoeial Laboratory for Indian Medicine (PLIM)
Pharmacopoeial Laboratory for Indian Medicine (PLIM) is a subordinate office
of Ministry of AYUSH located at Ghaziabad. The laboratory was established in
1970 as a Pharmacopoeial Standards Setting - cum Drugs testing laboratory at
national level for Ayurvedic, Siddha and Unani (ASU) Medicine. It acts as an
appellate laboratory for testing of Ayurvedic, Siddha and Unani (ASU) drugs
under Drugs & Cosmetic Act, 1940. The Pharmacopoeial Laboratory for Indian
Medicine was established with the objective to develop and validate
Pharmacopoeial standardization of single drugs and compound formulations
for incorporation in Ayurvedic, Siddha and Unani Pharmacopoeias and analysis
of legal drugs samples received from Drugs Control Authorities and Courts.
(ii)
Homeopathic Pharmacopoeial Laboratory (HPL)
Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Laboratory, Ghaziabad was set up as a national
laboratory for the purpose of laying down standards and testing for identity,
purity and quality of homoeopathic medicines. The laboratory also functions
as central drug laboratory for the testing of homoeopathic medicines. Standards
worked out by the laboratory are published in the Homoeopathic
Pharmacopoeia of India (HPI). The Department of Science and Technology has
recognized HPL as Science and Technology Institution.
(iii) Pharmacopoeia Commission for Indian Medicines & Homeopathy (PCIM & H)
Development of quality standards on Ayurvedic, Siddha, Unani and
Homoeopathic Medicine and their periodic update to the needs of the consumers