{"id":4620,"date":"2004-10-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/10\/07\/2004-10-07-ayurveda-contraceptive-developed\/"},"modified":"2004-10-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T12:00:00","slug":"2004-10-07-ayurveda-contraceptive-developed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/10\/07\/2004-10-07-ayurveda-contraceptive-developed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayurveda Contraceptive Developed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/template\/template.asp?template=health&#038;slug=Ayurveda+contraceptive+sans+side+effects&#038;id=61018&#038;callid=1\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 26, 2004: Scientists at the Central Council for Research in Ayurveda and Siddha (CCRAS) claimed to have developed a herbal contraceptive pill with &#8220;99 per cent success rate&#8221; and absolutely &#8220;no side effect.&#8221; The scientists at the Centre have developed the &#8220;first&#8221; herbal contraceptive pill &#8211; Pippalyadi yoga &#8211; using a recipe that was rediscovered in a 2,500-year-old medical text, Deputy Director CCRAS Dr K D Sharma said. The efficacy of the drug with different doses has been tested during phase-I Multicentric, Toxicological, Terratogenic and Safety Studies at PGI, Chandigarh; JIPMER, Pondichery and KEM Hospital, Mumbai. &#8220;No adverse effect in hormonal, biochemical, endometrial and sonographic studies for ovulation has been reported during the studies conducted on about 1,400 women,&#8221; said Sharma. The trials were conducted on fertile female volunteers in the age group of 20-34 years. &#8220;Prolonged administration of the drug has not shown any significant side effect or adverse effects,&#8221; said Sharma. The drug is undergoing phase II clinical trials at various centres across the country, as per the standards recommended by International agencies. The pill, offering a relatively cheap, non-toxic contraceptive, would hit the market within two years,. The pill, to be taken orally everyday, costs about US$0.22.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceNEW DELHI, INDIA, September 26, 2004: Scientists at the Central Council for Research in Ayurveda and Siddha (CCRAS) claimed to,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}