The growing, nurturing, harvesting and collecting  of the raw herbal  materials lead to the finalities of pharmaceutical formations. The Government Ayurved pharmacy at Rajpipla is an independent unit working for the preparation of herbal medicines.

This unit was established in 1982. The Choorn  (powder),  Gutika  (Tablet ) and Kwath (decoction)  are prepared there. Medicines worth  Rs. 50 lacs are produced  yearly on an average.

  The same sort of preparation is continued on a small scale  at Govt. Ayurved college, Vadodara. The medicines prepared at these places are supplied and used at Govt. Ayurved hospitals and dispensaries of the state.

Besides, Gujarat Ayurved Vikas Mandal, an autonomous body constituted by Government of Gujarat, runs its own pharmacy at Junagadh and at Ahmedabad. This pharmacy meets as much as 60% of the total demand of Govt. hospitals and dispensaries.

In tribal area of Dangs, at Ahwa,  a pharmacy is being run on co-operative basis and it supplies 30 % of the total requirement of the Govt. hospitals and dispensaries. A large number of the tribal people get  employment through  this pharmacy. With the increasing speed of development in the field of science  and medicine, Ayurved has also made tremendous progress. In the field of preparation of Ayurvedic medicines, many well established and highly reputed private pharmacies are working very satisfactorily in the field. The Govt. has decided  to spend 10 % of the grant for medicines on certain scheduled  patent medicines.

Drug testing laboratory  :-

In pursuance of the recommendations made in the National Seminar on Medicinal Plants & Traditional Medical Knowledge and Work shop on Management of Incurable Diseases like AIDS held on February 12 and 13,1999 at Saputara (Dangs), it was resolved  that a Drug testing Laboratory for  I .S.M. . Drugs should be established. Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar had prepared a project report  for such a lab. at Ahwa in Dangs district and Govt. has sanctioned it in  year 2000-2001  It will encourage  the co-operative societies for Medicinal  herbs in tribal areas and  will provide employment to the tribal people. This Laboratory is under the direct administration of Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar.