Taking the test of
tradition– How scientific evaluation helped Dr. JRK’s Traditional medicines
more acceptable
About Dr. JRK’s Research
Dr. JRK’s Research and
Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd is a 26 year old GMP ( Good Manufacturing Practices)
and ISO certified company based out of Chennai, India engaged in research,
development, manufacturing and marketing of unique well research herbal
medicines and cosmetics formulations. Its products for the management of skin
disorders like Psoriasis, Vitiligo etc are well renowned and marketed across
India and many countries outside India.
Did not take the beaten path
When popular approach to promote
traditional medicines has been one of taking refuge under the origins of the system
of medicine being thousands of years ago, Dr. JRK’s Research and
Pharmaceuticals set its vision to deviate from the beaten path in going through
the test of reason and subjecting its formulations to some of the most modern
analysis and evaluation.
The outcomes not only validated
the hypothesis of the efficacy of traditional medicines but more importantly
opened the doors for the products being accepted and actively considered by
medical practitioners across systems of medicines and through them a wider
section of patients for whom the benefits may never have reached.
Getting started with no precedence
Unlike large pharmaceutical
companies of the modern systems of medicines that have access to large
resources and a huge global market that is ready to absorb high product prices
, the sheer lack of precedence and the availability of sufficient independent
published academic and scientific studies of international standards has always
been a shortcoming in traditional medicines..
So much has to start from the
basics and much of it is voluntary as the regulatory requirements for decades
never insisted on the same.
But at Dr. JRK’s Research and
Pharmaceuticals evaluation and test of reason started from its inception in the
year 1992 .
A scientific rigor
Every product from the company goes through a multifold test
of reason
i. Extensive literary
and academic research
ii. Laboratory level to understand and establish
mechanisms of action - Both in-vitro and needbased in-vivo – t the ingredient
and finished formulations level
iii.
Pre-clinical trials
iv. Clinical trials
v. Post market feedback and trials
vi. Continuous evidence and deeper understanding and
communication of the therapeutics
vii. Continuous process improvement without
compromising on traditional values
The studies above do not remain an in-house for its
convenience exercise. Almost all of it have successfully cleared scrutiny by
scientific journals for being worthy of publication. The company has to its
credit over 78 research publications covering various study aspects outlined
above.
So much that there are still work in progress scientific
evaluations on formulations like Dr. JRK’s 777 oil that have been in the market
for over 25 years.
A wide and growing testimony of acceptance
All these and more has enabled a
reach of our products to a wide spectrum of medical practitioners spanning
specializations and geographies all of whom have supported and vouched the
company’s products for its therapeutic efficacy and the test of reason and the
test of tradition the company has voluntarily put itself into.
With the variety of studies, the
company was able to clear the apprehensions of medical practitioners of all
systems and speak to them in their own language of modern science.
For us at Dr. JRK’s
the test of tradition has always been a journey of fulfilment that gives us
greater confidence on the power, role and relevance of the traditional
medicines in today’s world.
