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Source of Ayurveda Knowledge

Knowledge Hub of Ayurveda, Vedic Literature & Philosophy.

Ayurveda Ahar Vidhi Vidhan By Dr Madhuri Patil

The source of life for all living beings is food and all living beings are food and all the world seeks food. Complexion, clarity, good voice, long life, understanding, happiness, satisfaction, growth, strength and intelligence are all established in food. Whatever is beneficial for worldly happiness(Laukik), whatever pertains to the Vedic leading to heaven and […]

Bilwadi Churna

This Classical ayurvedic formulation includes Bhanga or Cannabis which increases its potency. provides relief from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (BS), diarrhea, dysentery, abdominal pain & bowel insufficiency.

Ayurvedic Treatment for Covid-19

As the world continues to grapple with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many individuals are turning to alternative forms of medicine to help boost their immunity and manage the symptoms of the virus. One such form of medicine that has gained increasing attention is Ayurveda.

Medicinal Cannabis in Ayurveda

Cannabis, also known as marijuana, has been used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years. According to Ayurveda, an ancient Indian system of medicine, cannabis has the ability to balance the three doshas, or biological energies, in the body.

Lepa

Lepa are pastes or plasters intended for external use only and could be equated with the ‘ointments’ of the western pharmacopoeias. They should never be brought into contact with the delicate tissues as the ingredients are poisonous and irritating or corrosive. The term ‘lepa’ itself means that it is for external application only.

Lehya, Rasayana and Guda

Lehva are linctuses or confections or thickened and Sweetened extracts, equivalent to confections, electuaries and conserves of the British Pharmacopoeia. Lehya are also known as Avaleha.

Endocannabinoid Deficiency (ECD)

The Endocannabinoid System is an elaborate cell-signaling network spread throughout the body. One of the ECS’ major components is endocannabinoids or endogenous cannabinoids.

Cannabis for Endocannabinoid Deficiency

A few factors play a vital role in helping people maintain their healthy cannabinoid levels and prevent the ECS from going out of balance. Some of them include Decreasing inflammation, Having a healthy gut, Getting a good sleep, Reducing stress.

How Cannabis Helps with CEDs Consequences

Besides restoring the body’s necessary cannabinoid levels, Cannabis in Ayurvedic medicine helps the body regain balance on all levels. The cannabinoid receptors in the ECS are of two kinds, CB1 and CB2. A vast majority of the CB1 receptors are present in the brain and the central nervous system.

Lauha

Lauha kalpas are preparations of Loha Bhasma as main ingredient added to other drugs. The drugs are reduced to fine powder and mixed with loha bhasma. Bhavana is given with prescribed liquids mentioned.

Kvatha Churna

Kvatha churna are compounded coarse powders which are intended for usage whenever a particular type of decoction is required. (These kvatha churna are not to be used as churma).

Kshara, Lavana

Kshara are ashes of plant drugs or the derivatives of such ashes in the form of solutions or crystals, all of which have the basic quality of being alkaline. according to their state. liquid or solid, they are called as Drava Kshara (liquid form) and Churna Kshara(amorphous form) respectively.

Gutika and Vati in Ayurveda

Gutika, which are otherwise known as Vati, are pills or tablets.

Ghrita in Ayurveda

The ghrta are medicated ghee preparations which contain the fat soluble medicinal principles of the drugs used in the particular preparation.

Churna in Ayurveda

Churna are fine dry powders of drugs. The term Churna may be applied to the powder of a single drug or a mixture of two or more drugs which are powdered separately prior to their being mixed to homogeneity.

Bhasma in Ayurveda

Bhasma are equivalent to calx, which are prepared by a process of calcination. Bhasma are made by calcination the given drugs, which may either be organic or inorganic in origin.The materials which are made into Bhasma in from, minerals to metals, and animal to plant products. Chemically, the bhasma are oxides or ashes of the drug concerned, in state of fine division, with a certain proportion of these particles in the colloidal dimensions.

Asava and Arista in Ayurveda system of Medicine

Asava and Arista are alcoholic medicaments which are prepared by allowing the juices or decoctions of raw drugs mixed with sugars to undergo fermentation. At the final stage. The prepared medicine is moderately alcoholic (upto 12% by Volume) and mostiy sweetish in taste with slight acidity and Agreeable aroma.

Arka in Ayurveda

Arka are distilled essences, which contain the volatile Constituents of the drugs used in the preparation, in a medium of water and they are equivalent to the aquae’ or ‘waters’ Of the Western Pharmacopoeia, which are prepared in the same.

Ayurvedic Herbs for Mental Health

Ayurvedic Herbs for Improving Mental Health & Boost Cognitive Performance of Brain.

History of Ayurveda

Ayurveda is one of the most renowned traditional systems of medicine that has survived and flourished from ages till date. With the enormous knowledge of nature based medicine, the relationship of human body constitution and function to nature and the elements of the universe that act in coordination and affect the living beings, this system will continue to flourish in ages still to come.

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