ABSTRACT
Sushruta’s Classification of Ayurvedic Drugs is the pharmacological classification which will help drug researches in weeding out superfluous herbs from the classical formulations which are having multiple herbal components of different families of different geographical regions. Researchers can understand and interpret varied names of herbs and their disease-based applications and restructure a disease-based Ayurvedic formulary. In the sixth century ad, Vagbhata revised the constituents and added one new Gana, Vatsakaadi, and changed the names of Kaakolyaadi and Saalasaaraadi Gana as Padmakaadi and Asanaadi, respectively. In the sixteenth century, in Bhavaprakasha Nighantu, eight Vargas of the text comprise near about 480 drugs. Possible adverse effects of 196 drugs of herbal origin were included so that while preparing formulations, herb to herb interaction is taken care of.
