Journal of Ayurveda Case Reports (AyuCaRe) is a Quarterly Journal of All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA), New Delhi. It invites Case Reports from clinical specialties and provides opportunities for students, researchers and faculty of Ayurveda and allied medical sciences to be part of it. This initiative is expected to play a pivotal role in researches, further generating evidence bases for the claims and principles of Ayurveda and allied sciences in a systemic way. Here different areas of healthcare through Ayurveda may be brought together that will help practitioners, students, academicians, researchers and others in developing more holistic ways of Ayurveda approaches.

Ayurveda practice is challenging. Many physicians come across with certain clinical situations that have not mentioned in textbooks and presented in an unusual way. On the other hand, physicians may also have success stories for certain conditions, where no satisfactory answers are available in contemporary field. Dissemination of such success practices is a way of sharing knowledge that will help in shaping the health care system, what we see today.

Case Reports help practitioners to share their experiences with peers, researchers, students and other interested. Ayurveda needs more and more evidence based success stories. AyuCaRe Journal is focusing on this aspect and attempting to create a unique platform for all stakeholders of Ayurveda to share their experiences.

Despite of larger investments in Ayurveda researches and a huge number of Ayurveda PG / PhD Scholars coming-out every year; they failed to publish the outcome because of many reasons. Lack of good journals that encourage Ayurveda research publications may be one of the reasons. There are only a few journals in the field of Ayurveda that are indexed with PubMed that understand and encourage Ayurveda concepts and researches. Considering the scenario and need of publishing new journals and to create encouraging atmosphere for aspiring young researchers of Ayurveda; All India Institute of Ayurveda, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi has started a new Journal “Journal of Ayurveda Case Reports” (AyuCaRe), a Quarterly Journal of All India Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi. 

The journal (ISSN 2667-0593 / e-ISSN 2667-0607) can be accessed through ayucare.org and online management system is available at https://review.jow.medknow.com/JACR.

AyuCaRe Journal focuses on the following areas.

Diseases and diagnosis:

• Case reporting on exclusive Ayurvedic diagnosis.
• Unknown / Known etiology of a disease in Ayurvedic parlance.
• Understanding a disease on Ayurvedic principles.
• Presentation of Rare disease / Features / Arishta (Bad Prognostic Signs) as mentioned in Ayurvedic literature.
• Differential diagnosis of an Ayurvedic disease.
• Cases reporting - Nidanarthakara Roga and Vyadhisankara (Unusual Association of Diseases).
• Fault in Ayurvedic diagnosis of a disease.
• Any other cases that supplement the existing knowledge of Ayurveda and principles of diagnosis.

Treatment:

• Cases where Ayurvedic medicines / therapies / procedures provides demonstrable relief.
• Cases giving new insight in Ayurvedic management of chronic or rare diseases.
• Cases providing significant clinical outcomes.
• Case reports demonstrating practical application of any of the Ayurvedic treatment principles.
• Cases worthy of discussion particularly around aspects of differential diagnosis, decision making, management, clinical guidelines and pathology.
• Cases exploring myth and truth regarding extent of Ayurvedic treatment utility in management of rare and auto-immune diseases.
• Unusual or unexpected effect of a therapy / treatment including adverse drug reactions.
• Cases depicting common errors of management (related to fixing doses / timing of drug / choosing vehicle etc.) with their possible outcome with remedy.
• Referral cases from other system of medicine to Ayurveda.
• Failure of Ayurvedic therapy / management.
• Management of emergency care only by Ayurvedic modality.
• Innovative protocol for management of disease conditions following classical Ayurvedic guidelines.

Complications and accidents:

• Diagnostic / therapeutic accidents (eg. during Panchakarma therapy)
• Patient complaints / malpractices etc.

Adverse outcome of therapy:

• Drug reactions during pharmaceutical processing or during ingestion of Ayurvedic drugs
• Adverse events of Ayurvedic drug or therapy
• Adverse Drug Reactions / Side Effects of an Ayurvedic drug reported by a physician of any AYUSH system of medicines.

Miscellaneous / others:

• Educational purpose (only if useful for systematic review or synthesis) Clinical situation that cannot be reproduced for ethical reasons.

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