AVS ties up with CCMB Updated: Updated: For testing efficiency of Ayurveda drug Share Article For testing efficiency of Ayurveda drug Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala, one of the top-notch institutions engaged in the propagation of Ayurveda at global level, has signed an agreement with the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad as part of its ongoing research on the efficacy of Ayurvedic drugs in the fight against COVID-19. The CCMB, one of the premier life science research institutes engaged in testing, sequencing and growing novel coronavirus strains in their laboratories, will test Arya Vaidya Sala’s (AVS) standardised Ayurveda formulations on the lab-grown coronavirus strains in cell culture system, and check for their anti-viral efficacy.