Vairyadi kashayam is an Ayurvedic medicine for treating diabetes and its complications. It is also useful in urinary tract infections.
Benefits of Vairyadi kashayam
Vairyadi kashayam is used in the treatment of diabetes and its neurological complications. It strengthens the nervous system and prevents diabetic neuropathy from progress.
It can regulate the metabolism into normal in diabetic people by normalising the agni(digestive & absorptive power). It enhances the expulsion of wate products from the body. It improves the circulation and prevents the blockages in channels. It works as a nervine tonic.
As the main ingredients are ant-inflammatory in potency, this formulation is beneficial in many infections especially urinary. It purifies the urine output from the body. It is used mainly in Diabetes mellitus where polyuria is the main symptom.
It is used in some types of oedema as it clears the urine formation and excretion. By this, the water retention and electrolytes are in balance and the swelling gets cured. It is useful, especially in elderly people.
As it has an effect in proper management of water retention and electrolyte balancing in the body, it is used in many cases of hepatic and renal disorders.
It works as a diuretic and is used in urinary tract infection.
Indications of Vairyadi kashayam
Prameha and upadrava – Diabetes mellitus and complications, diabetes insipidus and urinary tract disorders.
Ingredients of Vairyadi kashayam
| Flannel weed/ Country mallow | Balaa | Sida cordifolia Linn. |
It is anti-pyretic, anti-inflammatory, contraceptive and anti-fungal activity. It is a tonic for strengthening nerves and muscles in various neuro motor diseases.
| Salaretin | Ekanayaka/ Vairi | Salacia reticulata Wight. |
It has anti-diabetic & anti-hyperlipidaemic properties. It effectively improves insulin resistance, glucose metabolism and reduces obesity. It can also be used in the treatment of rheumatism and skin diseases.
| Heart leaved moonseed | Amrutha
|
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 property.
| Amla, Indian gooseberry | Dhatri/Amalaka | Emblica officinalis GAERTN.
|
Amla exhibits strong antioxidant activity. It is one of the most important plants in the traditional Ayurvedic medical system as well as in other traditional health systems for immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, antiulcer and hepatoprotective actions. It is widely used for anti-diabetic effect.
| Turmeric
|
Nisa | Curcuma longa L.
|
Turmeric is used to help with heartburn or bowel problems like diarrhoea, intestinal gas, and bloating. It is famous for its anti-cancerous and detoxification effects. It is widely used in skin diseases. Some may use it to help with memory problems or problems with the liver or gallbladder. It may also help to lessen swelling and help with signs of arthritis. It has marked anti-inflammatory and antiseptic action.
Details of the manufacturing
As already discussed, Vairyadi kashayam is prepared using 5 ingredients 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 ladle. 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.
Vairyadi kashayam is Kapha-Pittahara.
It acts on aabhyantara rogamarga.
Dosage and Usage of Vairyadi 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.
As Vairyadi kashayam targets mainly urinary tract organs, only mild exercises are advised.
In persons with fever and urinary tract infections, physical exercises are not recommended.
But in diabetic persons, regular exercises and physical activities are advised.
Also, specific yogacharya including nadisuddhi pranayama, pavanamuktasana, vajrasana, bhujangaasana etc is recommended.
Regular exercise after regaining normal health helps improve bioavailability of the food ingested and leads to positive health.
Yoga can maintain harmony within the body and with the surrounding system.
Pavanamuktasana
Vajrasana
Nadisudhi pranayama
Bhujangasana
Simple exercises for lungs and heart health
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
Sweet food items and sweeteners.
Hot spicy and pungent food items like pickles
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 – increase kapha and cause indigestion. It may cause obstruction in the channels also.
curd – causes vidaaha and thereby many other diseases.
- To be added
Light meals and easily digestible foods
Green gram, soups, arrowroot, bitter gourd.
freshly cooked and warm food processed with cumin seeds, ginger, black pepper, ajwain etc
Behaviour:
Avoid sedentary life. Be active.
Avoid stress.
Protect yourself from very hot climate.
Better to avoid exposure to excessive sunlight, wind, rain or dust.
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 reference
AYURVEDA PATENT/KOTTAKAL YOGAGRANTHA
Equivalent medicines.
Nisothamadi kashayam
Brands Available
Research papers
Vairi/Ekanayaka
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22557337/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11824561/
https://dx.doi.org/10.1186%2Fs12937-015-0013-4
Nisa
https://dx.doi.org/10.1155%2F2013%2F636053
Amalaki
https://dx.doi.org/10.1002%2Fjsfa.10020
Bala
https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1573(199902)13:1%3C75::AID-PTR387%3E3.0.CO;2-
Research works:
Ethanol extract of roots of Sida cordifolia was evaluated for antistress, adaptogenic activity using cold restraint stress and swim endurance in mice. Mice pretreated with extract of Sida cordifolia showed significant improvement in the swim duration and reduced the elevated WBC, blood glucose and plasma cortisone.
doi: 10.4103/0250-474X.56027
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.
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