DR.I.SANJEEVA RAO
Dr I.Sanjeeva Rao
- Former Additional DirectorDepartment of I.S.M.,
- Govt. of Andhra Pradesh
- Former ChairmanAyurvedic Pharmacopoeia Committee
- Department of I.S.M. & H
- Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of
India
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Mahesh Nagar, Chirag Ali Lane,
Hyderabad – 500 001
Andhra Pradesh, India
Phone: 91-040-23202731
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DR.I.SANJEEVA RAO
Is a native of Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh and was born
on May 01,1932. He had his education upto Intermediate
of Madras University at the local Osmania College, as
Kurnool was a part of the composite State of Madras
presidency in those days.
He later studied for one year B.A. and when he came
to the next year of his studies in B.A. he got a seat
in the G.C.I.M. course at the College of Integrated
Medicine, Madras. As it was a Medical course he joined
that college in the year 1951.
After completing G.C.I.M at Madras he did his House-Surgeoncy
course under Lt.Col. R.K.Chettur, an eminent surgeon
and the Superintendent of the Government District Headquarters
Hospital, Cuddapah.
He joined as a lecturer at the Government Ayurvedic
College Hyderabad in 1959. On deputation by the Government
of A.P. he went to Banaras Hindu University in the year
1963 to complete his Doctorate course in Ayurveda at
the Institute of Medical sciences. He came under the
influence of Dr.K.N.Udupa and Dr.P.J.Deshpande and studied
Shalya Shalakya for three years. His major work for
his Doctoral Degree was 'Muscle Regeneration and wound
Healing under the influence of a Vedic plant MAMSA ROHANI
(SOYMIDA FEBRIFUGA-Meliaceae) -an experimental study’.
In 1969 the Government of A.P selected him as the principal
of the Government Ayurvedic College, Hyderabad. He held
that post till 1979. Later on he was elevated to the
post of Additional Director Ayurveda in the Department
of Indian Systems of Medicine & Homoeopathy. During
his tenure as the Principal of the Government Ayurvedic
College Hyderabad, he also held concurrently the post
of Dean, Faculty of Ayurveda & Unani of the Osmania
University, Hyderabad. He was responsible at that time
to get the PG courses in Ayurveda and Unani started
at the respective colleges leading to the award of M.D.Ayurveda
and M.D.Unani respectively. He was also a Govt. of India
Nominee on the First Central Council of Indian Medicine,
which was presided over by Pundit. Shiv Sharma.
Underwent following Management courses at The
Administrative Staff College of India, Bellavista, Hyderabad.
1. Training in Collegiate Administration in 1972.
Programme Coordinator Mr.Samsung Raj.
2. Training in R&D Management in 1979.
Project Coordinator Mr.Indra Dev.
He was on various Governmental and non-Governmental
bodies in various capacities. Now he is holding the
following responsibilities:
Former Chairman, Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia Committee,
Govt. of India.
Member of the Drug Technical Advisory Board, AUS Drugs.under
the provision of Drugs & Cosmetics Act.
Chairman, Regulations Committee, Central council of
Indian medicine, New Delhi.
Member on the Board of Directors, Indian Medicinal Corporation,
Mohan, Kumaon (A Govt. of India undertaking).
Member on the expert committee on Reproductive and Child
Health projects, Ministry of Health & Family welfare,
Govt. of India, New Delhi.
Formerly Member on the Governing Body, National Institute
of Ayurveda, Jaipur (A Govt. of India undertaking).
Formerly Member on the Governing Body, National Academy
of Ayurveda (A Govt. of India undertaking).
Formerly Member Technical Advisory Board on Ayurveda,
Unani and Siddha.
Member Governing Body – Central Council Of Research
In Ayurveda and Siddha.
Member Steering Committee on Medicinal plants project,
Dept. of Environment and Forestry, Government of A.P.
Formerly Chairman of the Technical Advisory Committee
on Ayurveda, Unani and Siddha medicines under the national
project of New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership
Initiative (NMITLI) of Council Of Scientific and Industrial
Research.
IMPORTANT RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS :
- WOUND HEALING AND TISSUE REGENERATION UNDER EXPERIMENTAL
SITUATIONS IN ANIMALS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF HERBAL
AGENTS.
- INNOVATED A NEW TECHNIQUE UNDER THE TITLE /AMASAYA
SODHANA/ A GASTRIC LAVAGE TECHNIQUE WITH THE HERBAL
DECOCTION FROM THE BARK OF CRATAEVA ADANSONI TO REGULATE
THE TRANS-GASTRIC MUCOSAL FLUX POTENTIAL IN CASES OF
GASTRITIS SYNDROME.
- FIRST SUCCESSFUL TRIAL OF A COMPOUND HERBO-MINERAL
PREPARATION MR-1078 TRITURATED WITH NEEM LEAF EXTRACT
IN CASES OF JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS WHICH HAD BROKEN out
IN AN EPIDEMIC FORM IN ANANTAPUR DISTRICT IN 1979.
- INTRODUCTION OF SPECIALLY PROCESSED PIPER LONGUM
AS AN EFFECTIVE IMMUNO-MODULATORY AGENT CUM THERAPEUTIC
TOOL IN TREATING CASES OF AMA VATA, (RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS).
- DRUG-STANDARDIZATION OF ASAVAS AND ARISHTAS
BY LOCATING THE FERMENTING PATHWAY.
- STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF, PRIYALAH, WHICH IS
SUPPOSED TO CONTAIN REQUISITE AMOUNT OF ARGININE AND
THUS SUPPOSED TO ENHANCE THE VASO DILATATION IN PERIPHERAL
TISSUES THROUGH THE NITRIC OXIDE PATHWAY, IN CASES OF
OLIGO-SPERMIA AND LACK OF MOTILITY IN SPERMATAZOA.
AWARDS:
- MAHARSHI AWARD.
- PUNDIT SHIVDUTT SHARMA AWARD BY THE GYAN KALAN
PEETH, ALLAHABAD.
- DISTINGUISED CITIZEN AWARD IN THE FIELD OF
“HEALTH”: RESEARCH, PRESERVATION & PROMOTION,
BY THE ROTARY CLUB OF HYDERABAD.
- VAIDYARATNA CAPTAIN G.SRINIVASA MURTHY SCIENTIST
AWARD
- BY THE ACADEMY OF AYURVEDA, VIJAYAWADA.
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