CRITICAL REVIEW ON DATABASES RELATED TO THE FIELD OF AYURVEDA

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Currently the world is getting digitalized day by day after the incursion of information technology (IT). It became the source of information for many fields such as science, technology, research, education, and commerce, etc. including healthcare. The internet has become an increasingly anticipated medical information resource. While considering involvement of IT and Artificial intelligence and its applications in various filed of medical science, the oldest traditional system of medicine, Ayurveda seems to be upgraded with ongoing competition. The area of Ayurveda like academic, clinical, Pharma and research where we can use IT, so that the system will get benefited and the things will move more calculated and faster. Hence, evidence base documentation, data safety, easy accessibility, worldwide propagation and many more are possible by using IT. Many new things like software’s, websites, blogs, and applications are upcoming with knowledge. These all gadgets are well utilized by the different group of people for their different needs. Ayurveda, being a data rich science, this enormous data should needed to be stored and can be utilized for various purposes. Database is an asset to resolve such issues. Many databases were created related to Ayurveda, unfortunately very few of them contains core / conceptual Ayurveda information. So the present article is an attempt to make a critical review on the databases available in the field of Ayurveda.