Why are non-allopathic drugs not being marketed internationally?
The problem with non-allopathic drugs is the manufacturers are not able to show to the world their consistency. They may work, they may not work. The advantage of allopathy is that you can be sure what the drug contains down to the last milligram. I can’t do that with ayurveda or even some herbal drugs. The confidence level will vary. Ayurveda must be able to create confidence in the minds of the patient and the doctor that what is there in the first batch is the same as the hundredth batch. They have not yet been able to establish that it is free of impurities and meets the claims it makes regarding its therapeutic effects. Ayurveda as a science has to adopt new techniques and methodologies available to the researcher today. Why are there few India-researched drugs in the market today? We have a temperament to follow the leader. Earlier, people were more interested in copying the process patent in a foreign researched drug. Today when companies look at other pharmaceutical companies l