Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda

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Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda (ĀCĀRA) is a new initiative of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham at the Amrita School of Ayurveda located in the Amritapuri Campus of the institution. ĀCĀRA is inspired by the vision of Amma to provide a scientific backing for traditional medical practices and pave the way for the development of an evidence based Integrative approach to health care. Ayurveda is being increasingly accessed by people world over and has an unbroken continuity in its practice in India.

Project

Amrita COVID-19 response

Integrative Health and Wellbeing – Strengthening Tribal Health with Preventative Care and Awareness

An exploratory clinical study to determine the utility of heart rate variability analysis in the assessment of doṣa imbalance

Studying Neuromuscular Diseases

Research

ĀCĀRA aspires to create a platform to facilitate dialogue between practitioners of biomedicine and Ayurveda and conduct research studies to develop Integrative Medical Care guidelines as well as a model centre for Collaborative Integrated Health Care. ĀCĀRA will also engage in collaborative research with scientific organisations and universities worldwide to enable global acceptance of Ayurveda. The focus areas for research at ĀCĀRA are

Conceptual Foundations of Ayurveda,
Development of Research Methodologies for Ayurveda,
Clinical Practice Outcomes Studies,
Designing and implementing rigorous clinical trials to evaluate complex treatments,
Biological Mechanism of Action Studies,
Network Pharmacology research to understand the complexity of Ayurvedic formulations,
Integrative Medicine research and development of Integrative Medical Care guidelines.

Research Labs