About Us

Ownership

Dr. S. Farooq is the owner and President of Phytochemistry and Ayurveda Society (PAS). He is deeply interested in promoting research on herbal medicine and plant chemistry through publications and by providing a platform for exchanging, discussing and exploring research advances in recent times.

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Aims and Objectives of the Journal

The Journal’s objective is to publish the original research, articles, reviews and monographs on the subjects: Ayurveda, herbal medicines, scientific approaches in Phytochemistry and related fields. Studies on clinical efficacy and authenticity of medicinal plants through herbal preparations and their products are emphasized. This also aims to provide a platform to young scholars to discuss and share research on herbs and their efficacy and to authenticate scientific documentation. It may be noted that with the passage of time, the traditional knowledge on herbs is now slowly disappearing. Hence, the specific motive of the publication of the Journal is to revive, promote, preserve and document the knowledge and practices by indigenous communities on therapeutic uses of herbs relevant for their conservation and sustainable use.
The Journal also publishes policy statements, opinions, book – reviews, conference proceedings and profession related information such as Pharmaco – vigilance reports for the benefits of the health professionals involved in Phyto – therapy.

Area of Research

The area of research is Ayurveda, Herbs, Natural Products, Phytochemical and Pharmaceutical studies, Indigenous traditional systems of medicines and other related fields for human health protection. The journal does not publish any research work done on human/animal subjects.

Significance of Research

Every plant in nature exhibits one or other medicinal property and every second plant is considered an important source of medicine. India alone boasts of more than 2000 medicinal plants, while total number of medicinal herbs in the world is about 70,000. 350 herbs. 110 medicinal herbs belong to Europe and America inclusive of the bestselling herbs of the USA (Ginseng, Finkogo, Garlic, Echinacea and Goldenseal), around 200 plants of Indian scene and a good number of plants from S.E. Asia and China. The secondary metabolites of the medicinal and aromatic plants have great therapeutic role whereas primary metabolites in healing process.

The large conglomerate of organic compounds present in a herbal extract used for medication casts a great doubt on the so-called “active compound”. This extract may contain a good number of oligosacchrides, polysaccharides, straches (if a tuber is used), sugar derivatives, aminoacids (both protein and non-protein, including essential amino acids), peptides, proteins, fatty acids (including essential fatty acids), fatty alcohols, vitamins, and minerals besides the “privileged” secondary metabolities. It is these very same compounds, which make and regulate the body, on consuming the plants as foods. Therefore, these additional primary matabolities may have a very positive role when they are taken as a medicinal extract. Earlier, every phytochemist was looking for active components like alkaloids, saponins and tannins in plants. Terpenoids and phenolics, especially the latter, received very scanty attention.

Ayurveda, the predominant herbal practice in India is considered science of life, prevention of ailments and longivevity. The holistic approch of this practice which advocates the involvement of both mind and body (and which compliment each other) in maintaining the body and healing the same, is a way of living itself. This is in sharp contrast with the allopathic system of medicine, in which the diseases are identified first and then the healing therapies are applied. When one system or the organ of the body is infected/affected, all other system of the body are similarly affected. For example, an infection in the stomach weakens the circulatory system, urino-genital system, respiratory system and even affects the psyche of the patient. The body becomes weak; immunity goes down, this paves way for secondary infections or problems. But normally a remedy in the form of a laxative is meant only for the alimentary canal and does not take care of the other system affected. Therefore, even when a patient is cured (of the stomach problem), he remains weak. In contrast, when a herbal formulation (in Ayurveda, a number of plants are involved in a formulation) is given, the multitude of components, including a large amount of primary metabolites, are available to the body to repair all the systems. The body is a wonderful machine and it repairs itself, using all these components. And that is the reason why a person becomes healthy and remains, so after a herbal (say Ayurvedic) treatment.

About Articles

Articles selected are of even academic quality, informative, contributory to the field, properly configured and clear. Each article shows dates on which it is received, revised, accepted and published as indicators of peer review and quality management of published content. These should be transparent, reproducible & follow bar of rigor.

About Authors

The geographical reach of authorship should be wide.

Eligibility and Responsibilities

• They should have contributed earlier to research of some significant application.
• Guidelines for manuscript writing is followed by them.
• They must send a hardcopy of the article.
• In case, author subsequently finds error in his manuscript, he should inform the Editorial Board accordingly for correction or retraction or any other issue, if any.
• They should be able to make corrections wherever necessary and accept their mistakes, if any
• They should not publish same article in another journal.
• They should inform if they are availing any financial support
• They should not adopt plagiarism.
• Conflict of Interest & ‘Disclaimer’ statement should be mentioned by them.
• The studies reported by them should meet the bar of rigor & transparency.
• Signing of Copyright notice (UJPAH Publishing Agreement) by authors.

Bar of rigor: Scientific rigor is defined as the strict application of method to ensure robust & unbiased experimental design, methodology, analysis, interpretation & reporting of results.

Transparency: The process by which the methodology, data collection, coding, analysis & tools used in data analysis should be clearly visible to readers.
It ensures that research findings on a subject can be assessed by any one. Authors must reveal basis of the processes & discussions through which they perform their experiments.

Reproducibility: it allows for any important part of data analysis for reproducing. The raw data is made available & helps other make its full analysis.

Authors Rights

 

• Their research work is kept confidential
• They are helped in corrections, clarifications and allowed for retraction
• They should be assisted without any bias for any problem faced in the process of publication
• The publisher and the editorial board should guide them whenever and wherever necessary.

Format of Research Paper & its Submission

• Authors should prepare the original manuscripts in English carefully to minimize corrections and change at proof stage.
• The title of research work should be clear and concise. The names of authors along with their affiliations as well as address, email and telephone number of the corresponding author should be given.
• The format of a manuscript comprises of Abstract (not exceeding 150 words), Key words, Introduction, Material and Methods, Observations, Results, Discussion and Conclusion, Acknowledgements, References, Tables, Figures, and Photographs.
• Authors wishing to include figures, tables or text passages which have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and on live format.
• The herbarium specimen number of plant(s) studied in case of less well known plants be cited using the collector and collection number (eg. Doe 123) as well as indicating the names of the herbarium institution where it has been deposited.
• The typed manuscript should not exceed 8 pages (single spaced) and tables and graphs should not exceed 10% of the typed manuscript.
• References to literature are to be arranged alphabetically or numerically (as the case may be) in NLM style and be placed at the end of the article.
  A sample citation for giving References is mentioned: for Journal: Singh, G.; Dhar, U. and Singhal, A.K. Origin of Kashmir Saffron – a possible clue from weeds. Sci. Cult., 2005, 43(1): 97-102, for Book: Lippert, E.; Luder, W. and Bors, H. In: advances in Molecular Spectroscopy, Mangini, A. (ed.) (Oxford: Pergamon) Pp. 443 and for Book Chapter: Brown, B.; Acron, M. The politics of nature. In: Smith, J. (ed). The rise of modern genomics, 3rd ed. Wiley, New York, 2001, Pp. 230-257.
• ‘Acknowledgement’ is to mentioned in the last before References but after Conclusion which should be followed by Disclaimer, Existing competing & Conflicting interest statement.
  Mention ethical approval wherever applicable and competing interests Disclaimer Statement.
  For Example:
  Authors declare that no competing interest exists. The products used for this research are commonly used products in research. There is no conflict of interest between authors and producers of the products. But for the advancement of knowledge, the research was not funded rather it was funded by personal efforts of the authors.
• The copyright lies with the publisher. Publication of papers will be in clear understanding that they have not been submitted for publication or published in another journal.
• The publisher or editors bear no responsibility for the statements, opinions and views expressed by contributors in the Journal and in case of any dispute, Dehradun shall be the place of jurisdiction for all legal purposes
  Manuscript must be sent to Chief Editor (dr.sfarooq.him@gmail.com) or Editor (editor@ujpah.in)

Acceptance of Research Paper: The articles are finally accepted for publications only on the advice of Peer Reviewers.

Peer Review

The manuscripts submitted by authors are examined by the Editor in respect of its layout as per author guidelines. If the research paper is found up to the mark, it is sent to potential Reviewers for peer review. The reviewer examines the paper and gives his/her comments on the prescribed format as given below.

Review Form CLICK HERE

Peer Review process is adopted by using a two way anonymous peer review model.
A panel of Peer- Reviewers of 15 members belonging to different areas of journal’s subject has been formed.

Duties & Responsibilities of Peer-reviewers

• • Duties

The reviewer’s duty is to review the manuscript in respect of its academic and scientific content, originality, significance, clarity and quality. They must keep the manuscript review as confidential document and must not use its any part of research content for their own benefit.

• Responsibilities
• Reviewers should have no conflict of  interest against authors
• Their judgment should be objective
• They should draw attention to relevant research work which is published but not yet cited
• Reviewed articles should be kept confidential till their publications.
• Reviewers are expected to give unbiased report on the manuscript.