Utilization of complementary and traditional medicine practitioners among middle-aged and older adults in India: results of a national survey in 2017–2018 by Supa Pengpid, Karl Peltzer

“…Abstract Background Lack of information exists about the use of traditional and complementary medicine (TCM) use among middle-aged and older adults in India, which led to studying the estimates of past-12-month Ayurveda/Yoga/Naturopathy/Unani/Siddha/Homeopathy (AYUSH) practitioner and traditional health practitioner (THP) utilization in India. …”
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Determinants of Job Satisfaction amongst Medical Officers of Primary Health Centre in Anand District, Gujarat, India by Deepak B Sharma, Utkarsh M Shah, Rakesh Patel, Vidushi Gupta, Uday Shankar Singh

“…Materials and Methods: The present cross-sectional analytical study was conducted amongst 50 PHC Medical Officers (MO), MBBS and Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Homeopathy (AYUSH) of Anand, Gujarat, India. …”
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Pendayaupayaan Usahawan India dalam Syarikat Herba di Semenanjung Malaysia by Muniandy, Ramachandran

“…Perniagaan tersebut mula berkembang menjadi satu bidang perniagaan yang beroperasi dalam skil besar setelah syarikat Siddha Vaidya Salai dari Palani India mula beroperasi di Malaysia dalam lingkungan tahun 1960an hingga 1970an. …”
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Phytochemical Discrimination, Biological Activity and Molecular Docking of Water-Soluble Inhibitors from <i>Saussurea costus</i> Herb against Main Protease of SARS-CoV-2 by Hajo Idriss, Babeker Siddig, Pamela González Maldonado, H. M. Elkhair, A. I. Alakhras, Emad M. Abdallah, Pablo Hernán Sotelo Torres, Amin O. Elzupir

“…Siddha medicine is one of the oldest medical systems in the world and is believed to have originated more than 10,000 years ago and is prevalent across ancient Tamil land. …”
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Evaluation of Efficacy and Safety of Clevira as an Add on Drug in Mild to Moderate COVID-19 Positive Patients: A Randomised Control Trial by R Narayanababu, S Ramesh Kannan, R Lenin, M Sakthibalan, KM Sudha, K Gowtham, Arther Paul, Esekia David

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Cytotoxic activity of Indigofera aspalathoides (Vahl.) extracts in cervical cancer (HeLa) cells: Ascorbic acid adjuvant treatment enhances the activity by Venkatesan Ramya, Venkatachalam Madhu-Bala, Karuppiah Prakash-Shyam, Balakrishnan Gowdhami, Krishnamoorthy Sathiya-Priya, Kalimuthu Vignesh, Balasubramanian Vani, Balamuthu Kadalmani

“…Conclusion: I. aspalathoides used in the Siddha medicine for antitumor treatment have a very potent cytotoxic effect against cervical cancer cells (HeLa) in vitro. …”
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Understanding the mode-of-action of Cassia auriculata via in silico and in vivo studies towards validating it as a long term therapy for type II diabetes by Fauzi, Fazlin Mohd, John, Cini Mathew, Karunanidhi, Arunkumar, Mussa, Hamse Y., Ramasamy, Rajesh, Adam, Aishah, Bender, Andreas

“…Ethnopharmacological relevance: Cassia auriculata (CA) is used as an antidiabetic therapy in Ayurvedic and Siddha practice. This study aimed to understand the mode-of-action of CA via combined cheminformatics and in vivo biological analysis. …”
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Immunomodulatory activity of Moringa oleifera L. leaf ethanol extract on normal lymphocytes and leukaemic cell lines by Lawal, Hamza

“…Indians have been using leaves, fruits and flowers of M. oleifera as part of their routine diet as this 'wonder' herb also was used in ancient Ayurveda and Siddha medicine for nearly 2000 years. Phytochemical and animal studies have shown that the therapeutic activities of M. oleifera have largely depended on its main polyphenols such as quercetin glucosides, kaempferol glycosides, rutin, and chlorogenic acid. …”
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Inhibition of SARS-CoV2 viral infection with natural antiviral plants constituents: An in-silico approach by Kuntal Das, Paramita Das, Mansour Almuqbil, Syed Mohammed Basheeruddin Asdaq, K. Nikhil, K. Preethi, A. Angelinkiruba, Nasser Fawzan Alomar, Rawabi M. Al harbi, Walaa A. Al Abdullah, Sami M. Alshehri, Yahya A. Laghabi, Ahmed R. Alsaegh, Yahya Mohzari, Sultan Alshehri, Basheerahmed Abdulaziz Mannasaheb, Syed Imam Rabbani

“…This study evaluated some of the potent phytochemicals obtained from AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa, and Homeopathy)-listed medicinal plants against SARS-CoV-2 proteins using computational techniques. …”
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Yoga as a Preventive Intervention for Cardiovascular Diseases and Associated Comorbidities: Open-Label Single Arm Study by Kaushal Sharma, Kaushal Sharma, Indranill Basu-Ray, Indranill Basu-Ray, Indranill Basu-Ray, Natasha Sayal, Ariana Vora, Sridhar Bammidi, Rahul Tyagi, Shweta Modgil, Shweta Modgil, Parul Bali, Parul Bali, Paramvir Kaur, Atul Kumar Goyal, Atul Kumar Goyal, Deepak Kumar Pal, Harshita Arvind, Khushboo Jindal, Vincy Garg, Bandu Matyal, Neha Thakur, Amit Chhikara, Navneet Kaur, Preety Maanju, Kulsajan Singh Bhatia, Viraaj Pannu, Vanita Gupta, Neeru Malik, Rakesh Malik, Raman Kumar, Ravneet Kaur, Vinod Bhatt, Ashish Bhalla, Manju Mohanty, Gurmeet Singh, Suresh Kumar Sharma, Suresh Kumar Sharma, Madhava Sai Sivapuram, Deepali Mathur, Dibbendu Khanra, Akshay Anand

“…AimCommon Yoga Protocol (CYP) is a standardized yoga protocol authored by experts from all over the world under the aegis of the Ministry of AYUSH, Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa Rigpa and Homeopathy (AYUSH). The potential of CYP can be determined as a cost-effective lifestyle modification to prevent the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases (CVD).MethodsIn this prospective trial, we compared the effect of CYP at baseline and after 1 month. …”
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Tumuli Stones, Sacred Geography, and Meditation Halls for Mantra by Keith Edward Cantú

“…It then shows how such a phenomenon was intertwined with the mythology of Agastya and the Tamil Siddhas via Sabhapati’s other guru line. Consideration is also given to the role of mantra in these tumuli and their accompanying “Meditation Halls” (maṭālayams). …”
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Adrián Muñoz. <i>La piel de tigre y la serpiente: la identidad de los nāth-yoguis a través de sus leyendas</i> by Luis Óscar Gómez Rodríguez

“…Este linaje se asocia principalmente con la tradición hinduista, aunque también se entrelaza con la tradición de los 84 siddhas de la corriente budista. Muñoz se concentra en las narrativas legendarias y en el papel que desempeñan estas en la creación de la identidad religiosa de los seguidores del nāth-panth.…”
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சைவ சமய சிந்தாமணி முன்னிறுத்தும் சைவ சித்தாந்த அடிப்படைகள் / The Basic Norms Projected by Saiva Samaya Chinthamani... by நா.வாமன் / N. Vaman

“…There are many spiritual treatises that speak of the glory of Lord Shiva and the philosophic ideas elicited by him to the Siddhas. “Saiva Samaya Chintamani” is one of the most prominent books on Saivism in the Twentieth Century. …”
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