Aragwadhamrithadi kashayam is an Ayurvedic medicine for a wide array of diseases from skin rashes to gastric ulcers.
Benefits of Aragwadhamrithadi kashayam
It is beneficial in peptic ulcer. In abdominal pain, distension, belching, heartburn and other discomforts associated with ulcer, this combination is found useful. It cures fever associated with Pitta-kapha dominance.
It works as a hepato-protective formulation.
It is used in the treatment of many skin diseases like atopic dermatitis, childhood eczema, heat rash, acne, oozing pustules, blisters, nail bed infections etc where redness, swelling and burning sensation are present.
It is used to treat hot flushes associated with menopause. It is beneficial in inflammatory vaginal diseases with redness and burning sensation.
It is used in the first stage of rheumatoid arthritis with red rashes of skin and burning sensation.
Indications of Aragwadhamrithadi kashayam
Twagvikara – Skin diseases
Amlapitta – All types of ulcers in gastrointestinal tract
Ingredients of Aragwadhamrithadi kashayam
| Golden shower tree | Aragwadha
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Cassia fistula |
It has anti-fungal, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumour, hepato-protective, and hypoglycaemic activities. Also, it has many anti-oxidants. Flowers are used for fever. Root acts as a diuretic and is used in adenopathy, leprosy, skin diseases, syphilis and tubercular glands. The bark and leaves are used for curing skin diseases.
| Heart leaved moonseed | Amrutha/Guduchi
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Tinospora cordifolia (WILLD.) HOOK.F. & THOMS |
It is effective anti-ulcer drug in action. It is a well-known anti-oxidant and has significant anti-inflammatory properties.
| Chebulic myrobalan | Pathya | Terminalia chebula RETZ. & WILLD. |
It is one of the main drugs in Ayurveda, one of the Rasayana and a member of an important group, Triphala. It is used in a wide variety of diseases as it possesses anti-bacterial anti-fungal anti-viral anti-diabetic anti-mutagenic anti-oxidant anti-ulcer and wound-healing properties
| Cutch tree | Khadira | Acacia catechu |
It is the best drug for skin diseases. It is widely used to treat acute and chronic skin diseases like eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis, heat rashes etc. It is a blood purifier and is used in bleeding disorders, fever, inflammatory arthritis, diabetic wounds etc.
Details of the manufacturing
Aragwadhamrithadi kashayam has 4 ingredients. All of them are taken in equal quantity.
All these ingredients should be washed well and dried up in shade.
Take the prescribed herbs in dried & crushed form in an earthen pot. Now add 16 times clean water into it. Make it boil and then cook in the open vessel with low fire. Reduce the quantity into one by eighth of the initial quantity. Make sure to mix it in between with a wooden spatula. Also, the fire should be kept low to make sure that all the active ingredients in the herbs needed are absorbed well into the water. Once the quantity is reduced to one by eighth of the initial amount of water, remove the vessel from the fire. Squeeze and drain through a clean white cloth. Collect the decoction in a clean vessel and discard the solid waste. Drink the mild warm decoction.
Dosha Dooshya Predominance with roga margas.
Aragwadhamrithadi kashayam is Pitta-kaphahara.
It acts aabhyantara and bahir-rogamargas.
Dosage and Usage of Aragwadhamrithadi kashayam
Dosage: two Pala.
Usage:
Kashayam is advised to take in empty stomach, once the ingested food is digested well and aahaararasa is formed well.
Usage of kashayam with prescribed prakshepadravyas according to the condition of disease and the patient gives the best results mostly.
Exercises and Yoga.
Aragwadhamrithadi kashayam is used in a wide variety of diseases. Exercises should be decided considering the disease also. While it targets mainly skin and joints, vigorous exercises are not allowed in painful conditions.
Only stretching, moderate walking, and mild cardio exercises are advised. Also, specific yogacharya including bhujangaasana, salabhasana, vajrasana is recommended. Range of movement and flexibility must be considered while doing every exercise.
Sookshma sandhi vyayama (warming up small joints) is advised.
Regular exercise helps improve bioavailability of the medicine and food ingested and leads to positive health.
Yoga can maintain harmony within the body and with the surrounding system.
Salabhasana
vajrasana
Bhujangasana
All the exercises and physical exertions must be decided and done under the supervision of a medical expert only.
Recommended diet and behaviour
Diet:
- To be avoided
Heavy meals and difficult to digest foods – cause indigestion.
junk foods- cause disturbance in digestion and reduces the bioavailability of the medicine
carbonated drinks – makes the stomach more acidic and disturbed digestion
refrigerated and frozen foods – causes weak and sluggish digestion by weakening Agni (digestive fire)
Milk and milk products other than buttermilk- Cause indigestion, increase Kaphadosha, can lead to obstruction in channels and respiratory problems.
curd – causes vidaaha and thereby many other diseases
Red chilli and other pungent, hot and spicy food items.
- To be added
Light meals and easily digestible foods
Green gram, soups, buttermilk boiled with ginger, turmeric, curry leaves etc.
freshly cooked and warm food processed with cumin seeds, ginger, ajwain etc
Behaviour:
Better to avoid exposure to excessive sunlight wind rain or dust.
Avoid stress.
Avoid sedentary lifestyle as it is one of the main causes of rheumatoid arthritis.
Maintain a regular food and sleep schedule.
Avoid holding or forcing the urges like urine, faeces, cough, sneeze etc.
Side effects and contraindications
No known side effects reported
Classical references
SAHASRAYOGA VISARPAVISPHOTA SHLOKA 9
Equivalent medicines.
Guduchyadi kashayam
Brands Available
Vaidyarathnam oushadhasala
Research papers
ARAGWADHA
https://www.hilarispublisher.com/proceedings/aragvadha-a-miracle-drug-in-skin-disorders-23830.html
Pathya
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21323478/
Khadira
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6680240/
GUDUCHI
ANTI OXIDANT AND ANTI INFLAMMATORY
The objective of the present work is to study the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effect of alcoholic and water extracts of T. cordifolia (Willd.) Miers leaves in activated human monocytic THP-1 cells.
- cordifolia (Willd.) Miers extracts exhibited significant amounts of total phenolic and flavonoid content, and LC-MS/MS analyses detected tinosponone, a TC-specific clerodane-derived diterpene. Both types of extracts attenuated AA-induced ROS generation via enhancing catalase enzyme activity in THP-1 cells. Real time PCR and ELISA experiments revealed that the elevated levels of LPS-induced TNF-α was remarkably attenuated in THP-1 cells pretreated with T. cordifolia (Willd.) Miers extracts. Western blot and confocal microscopy showed that the alcoholic extract’s anti-inflammatory activity by attenuating NF-κB translocation into the nucleus in LPS-activated THP-1 cells via the inhibition of IκB degradation in the cytosol.
The findings suggest that T. cordifolia (Willd.) Miers dry leaf extracts possess antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties via upregulation of antioxidant enzymes and attenuation of NF- κB nuclear translocation in activated human monocytic (THP-1) cells.
doi: 10.1016/j.phymed.2019.152831.