List of ongoing  & completed research projects

Under Ayurveda section
Ongoing Projects
  1. North-East Health Care Programme (Initiated during 2016 and continuing till date)
  2. Transcription of an unnamed Gurmukhi manuscript from Gurmukhi to Devnagari Script and its translation to Hindi.
  3. Translation of Rasachandrika Rajavaidyam by Shriyuth Bhairavan and a yogindranath from Malayalam to English.
  4. Efficacy of Rajahpravartini Vati in Adolescent and Young Females with Primary Dysmenorrhoea – Double-blind Randomized Placebo-controlled Clinical Trial.
  5. A Cross-sectional Study on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) related to Menstruation among School-going Adolescent Girls in Itanagar, Papum Pare.
  6. A Cross-sectional Study on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices (KAP) related to Menstruation among School-going Adolescent Girls in North-Eastern Region.
  7. Documentation of ethno-dietary practices indigenous to India.
  8. Documentation of plants, metals, minerals and animal products and other materials used in various indigenous religious practices and rituals across India.
  9. Effect of Ayurveda-based Menstrual Advocacy on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices related to menstruation among school going adolescent girls in Itanagar, Papum pare.
Completed Projects
  1. Clinical Evaluation of Rudraksha Churna in the management of essential Hypertension (Uccha Raktachap)
  2. Effective Implementation of AYUSH Hospital Management Information System (A-HMIS)
  3. Population based survey study regarding AYUSH intervention as prophylaxis by the Indian population during the COVID-19 pandemic through AYUSH Sanjeevani App of Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India.
  4. Documentation of efficacy of selected Ayush Interventions (Ayush-64 and Kabasura Kudineer) in asymptomatic & mild to moderate COVID-19 patients in home isolation through a mobile app: A prospective multicenter community-based study.
  5. Clinical evaluation of Vajra Kshara in the management of Aamajirna­­­-A Randomized parallel group study
  6. Demographic and Non-communicable disease profiling among patients seeking Ayurveda treatment from Ayurveda Health Centers in selected North-east regions of India.
  7. Effectiveness of Ayurveda based Diet & Lifestyle advocacies and Ayurvedic treatment regimen in patients seeking Ayurveda treatment from Ayurveda health centre in selected North east regions of India
  8. Non-communicable Diseases & associated factors among health-seekers approaching the selected Ayurveda Health Centers in Northeast India.
  9. Tribal Health Care Research Project.( It was introduced during the period 1999-2000 and stopped on 2008-2009; again started from 2009 and stopped by the direction from head quarter on Oct, 2016-Ref: Annual Report 2016-17)
  10. Swastha Rakshan Programme (Initiated on 18th January 2016 and Closed in March, 2019)
  11. Documentation of Life Profiles of Admirable Personalities to Transform Ayurveda (APTA)-Vaidyamadham Cheriya Narayanan Namboothiri.
b) Under Survey of Medicinal Plants Section
Ongoing Projects
  1. Critical appraisal and validation of Local Health Traditions (LHTs), Oral Health Traditions (OHTs) and Ethno Medicinal Practices (EMPs): An inclusive study among Ethnic communities of Northeast India.
  1. Documentation of Ethnic Foods/Dietary Products and Wild Edible Medicinal Plants in Local Markets of the Adi Tribe in Siang, East Siang, and Lower Dibang Valley Districts of Arunachal Pradesh.
  2. Documentation of ethno-dietary practices indigenous to Tawang, Upper Subansiri, Shi Yomi, West Siang, Dibang Valley, Siang, East Siang, and Lower Dibang Valley districts of Arunachal Pradesh.
  3. Documentation of plants, metals, minerals, animal products and other materials used in various indigenous religious practices and rituals in Tawang, Upper Subansiri, Shi Yomi, West Siang, Dibang Valley, Siang, East Siang, and Lower Dibang Valley districts of Arunachal Pradesh.
  4. Effect of organic fertilizers on growth and yield of Coix lacryma-jobi (Gaveduka).
Completed Projects
  1. Cultivation of high valued medicinal plants in medicinal plants garden
  2. Nursery development at RARI, Itanagar
  3. Mass cultivation of selected economically important medicinal plants
  4. Anthology of survey research outcome from medico ethno botanical survey, RARI, Itanagar
  5. Documentation of wild edible and medicinal plants commercialized at local market in Papum Pare and lower Lower Subansiri district of Arunachal Pradesh.