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5. Establishment and Maintenance High Tech Education Facilities for Alternative

Medical Colleges
6. Legislatives and Regulations

7. Monitoring and Supervision

Recommendations

• Proper identification or selection, collection of the medicinal plants and
extraction procedure of the identified plant with suitable solvent are mandatory

to develop Traditional medicine.
• Detection of biologically active compounds, metabolites from the crude extract

and establishment of a bioassay system for identification of the active fractions
which are important approaches to claim the therapeutic efficacy.

• Isolation of the active compound by chromatographic or other suitable techniques
and purification of the isolated compounds by repeated chromatography and

crystallisation.
• Establish the chemical structures of the pure compounds by various

physicochemical techniques and determine their biological activity by various
pharmacological and toxicological tests.

• Follow good agricultural and collection practices (GACP) for medicinal plants.
• To arrange Training & Research programme on management and control of

NCD (HTN, DM, Obesity, Heart Disease, Fatty Liver, Stroke, Dyslipidaemia,
etc) by lifestyle modification, counselling and healthy food guidelines.

• Increase International collaboration on TM Education and Research.

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