Traditional Medicine
A time-tested, holistic system of medicine rooted in nature and individual constitution — Ayurveda promotes balance in body, mind, and spirit through personalized approaches using diet, herbs, lifestyle, detoxification, and mind-body practices aimed at restoring harmony and preventing disease.

1. Sharma, N., & Sharma, C. M. (2014). The first randomized controlled trial of Ayurvedic therapy in the treatment of chronic migraine. In 7th European Congress for Integrative Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia, October 10–11. European Society of Integrative Medicine.
2. Sharma, N., & Nachiketa, A. (2015). Integrative Ayurveda healing relieves minor sports injury pain: Results of a multicenter controlled clinical trial. In International Conference on Sports Medicine and Fitness, Chicago, USA, March 23–25. Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies.
3. Chaudhari, R., Sharma, N., Birje, S., & Chaudhari, A. (2018). Evolving Indian post-partum care through service model: Qualitative study of experience and satisfaction. In 10th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Science Studies, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, November 12–14.
4. Chaudhari, R., Sharma, N., Birje, S., & Chaudhari, A. (2018). The role of Indian postpartum care in women’s psychological functioning. In 11th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Rockville, MD, USA, November 19–20.
5. Chaudhari, R., Sharma, N., Birje, S., & Chaudhari, A. (2018). Indian postpartum care: A randomised trial to improve maternal health six weeks after birth. In 7th Academic International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities, Harvard University, Boston, USA, November 19–21.
6. Sharma, N., & Chockalingam, P. (2019). Vedic medical astrology and relevance to essential hypertension management. In Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies, Queens College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, March 19–21. Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies Committee.
7. Kumar, A., Prasad, G., Srivastav, S., Gautam, V. K., & Sharma, N. (2020). A retrospective study on efficacy and safety of Guduchi Ghan Vati for COVID-19 asymptomatic patients. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160424
8. Kumar, A., Prasad, G., Srivastav, S., Gautam, V. K., & Sharma, N. (2020). Efficacy and safety of Guduchi Ghan Vati in the management of asymptomatic COVID-19 infection: An open-label feasibility study. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.20.20198515
9. Sharma, N. (2021). Marma therapy in chronic migraine prophylaxis: A randomized wait-list clinical trial. Presented at the Summer Research Seminar, Aarogyam (UK), May 1. Virtual Seminar.
10. Kulkarni, V., Sharma, N., Modi, D., Kumar, A., Joshi, J., & Krishnamurthy, N. (2021). Community-based participatory research to assess the feasibility of Ayurveda intervention in patients with mild-to-moderate COVID-19. medRxiv, 2021.01.20.21250198.
11. Sharma, N., Voegeli, M., Joshi, V., & Lakshmanan, S. (2022). Journey from acute in-patient to community-based mental health rehabilitation: Outcome of Ayu-Psychiatry Care Initiative. BJPsych Open, 8(S1), S57. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.207
12. Voegeli, M., Sharma, P., Sharma, S., Sharma, B., Goyal, I., Sharma, N., Lakshmanan, S., & Venu, A. (2022). Early community-based Ayu-emergency intervention in psychiatric emergencies: A community-based participatory research. European Psychiatry, 65. Cambridge University Press.
13. Sharma, N., Lakshmanan, S., Pandey, K., & Joshi, V. (2022). A pilot study of community-based integrative Ayurveda program in patients with fibromyalgia. In RCCM Annual Conference, September 5. Virtual Conference. Abstracts.
14. Sharma, N., Lakshmanan, S., Pandey, K., Nair, R. L., Singh, A., Kulkarni, G., Pandav, K., & Shah, P. (2022). Ayurveda-Practice-Based Research Network (A-PBRN): Lessons learned and way forward in the UK. Global Journal of Health Science, 14(10). https://doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v14n10p1