When there are clinical trials in ayurveda, the focus tends to be on practices in alternative medicine.
A 2017 essay described that in India, ayurveda is inadequately equipped to manage many modern diseases, owing to insufficient research and development.
[1] The essay argued that clinical trials in ayurveda should focus on areas outside the scope of modern medicine.
[1] Also, while there is a short history of clinical research on ayurvedic treatments, there is no existing systematic review available which identifies all the studies and interprets them as a whole.
[2] Educational organizations which teach Ayurveda require training if they are to design clinical trials on ayurvedic treatments.