I am often asked to suggest
some topics for PG Scholars of homoeopathic pharmacy. Here I make an attempt to
list them out.
Topics are bifurcated as follows:
A. The ones which could be done
within the institute with or without little aid from outside.
B. The ones which need to be done
outside the college, i.e. other institutions/laboratories.
A. Within the institute
a) plant studies, like growth of
the plant, against some induced diseases, germination, etc.
b) standardization studies include
pharmacognocy, finger print studies like TLC, UV, HPLC/HPTLC, etc.;
pharmaceutical analysis like presence of phytoconstituents
c) Crystallization
d) Drug proving
e) Lipoid flocculation
f) comparison of quality standards
in difrerent pharmacopoeias like HPI, GHP, HPUS, FHP, Brazillinan, etc.
g) comparison of expiry in
different countries
h) comparison of homoeopathic
regulation in different
i) (outside institute but without
dependence on other institutes) market research on purchase of
homoeopathic medicine in different regions
j) (outside institute but without
dependence on other institutes) public survey on the usage of homoeopathic
medicine
B. Outside institute
a)
in-vivo animal studies on different activities like anti-inflammatory,
anti-dementia, anti-epileptic, hepatoprotective, hypoglycemic,
hypocholesterolemic, etc.
b)
in-vitro studies like cyto-toxic/anti-cancer, anti-oxidant, etc.
c)
nanoparticle study
d)
gene expression study
Document "Priority areas..." lists the topics which could be
taken for homoeopathic research. Sub-heading 'Drug development and drug
standardization' throws some idea interesting to homoeopathic pharmacy
scholars.
Another paper titled 'Homeopathic
standardisation...' by MV Kardile is an interesting review paper. It also
throws some light on the activities of homoeopathic dilutions.
I hope this will be of some help.
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