Ayurveda reviewed from a systems biology perspective
Deocaris CC, Widodo N, Wadhwa R, Kaul SC. Merger of ayurveda and tissue culture-based functional genomics: inspirations from systems biology. J Transl Med. 2008 Mar 18;6:14. PMID: 18348714
A team from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology reviews Ayurveda from a post-genomic perspective. The authors undertake an analysis of the most prominent therapeutic plant of Ayurveda, the Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera). From the manuscript:What insights can we gain by analyzing the web of complexity of these networks associated with herbal drug action in a cell in system biology perspective? We should expect a major contribution from the bio-informatics resources towards the development and enrichment of traditional herbal medicine because such a perspective captures the uniqueness and complexity of drug action in a cell. Such holistic perspective also avoids the pitfall of being too reductionist, and in effect, mollifies some criticisms from traditional ethnopharmacologic researchers.
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