BALAJEERAKADI KASHAYAM- Benefits, Indications, Ingredients, Dose, Diet, Exercises, Side effects, Research papers

Balajeerakadi kashayam is an Ayurvedic medicine for improving respiratory health and immunity.

Benefits of Baaajeerakadi kashayam

Balajeerakadi kashayam is very effective in asthma. It works as a good expectorant, removes the obstruction and clears airways.

It is very effective in allergic respiratory diseases like bronchitis.

It is beneficial in pulmonary tuberculosis.

As the kaphadosha is cleared, Agni starts functioning proper. By improving digestion, this kashayam improves taste and appetite; bioavailability of nutrients in the food also enhanced. Hence general health improved.

By boosting immunity, the severity and frequency of respiratory infections reduce.

Indications of Balajeerakadi kashayam

Swaasa               – breathing disorders including asthma

Kaasa                  -Cough

Ingredients of Balajeerakadi kashayam

Country mallow Bala 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 neuromotor diseases.

Cumin Jeeraka Cuminum cyminum

 It is very good in improving digestive fire and immunity. It helps in curing various kinds of ulcers, IBS, diarrhea, and other disorders of the gut. It is used in the treatment of mild digestive disorders as carminative. It is useful as an astringent in Bronchopulmonary diseases. 

Indian bael    Bilwa Aegle marmelos

 It has anti-inflammatory properties and it is effective in peptic ulcer. It is anti-diarrhoeal, anti-diabetic and anti-microbial. Being a part of Dasamoola (group of roots of Ten plants) it helps to enhance its anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties.

Coco grass, Nut grass, Purple nutsedge Abda Cyperus rotundus L.

It has marked anti-inflammatory action. It also has anthelmintic, antioxidant and antifungal properties. The drug improves lactation, relieves fever, burning sensation, and excessive thirst. It is also used in treating diarrhoea, dyspepsia and skin diseases. 

Adathoda, noix de Malabar Vrisha Justicia adathoda L.

 

It is an expectorant and is mostly used in respiratory conditions. It helps in the treatment of skin diseases. It is also used in jaundice, fevers, headache, and urinary infections.

Gingembre séché Viswa Zingiber officinalis

It is unctuous and hot in potency with a pungent taste but becomes sweet after digestion. It is an aphrodisiac and balances Vaata and Kapha.

Il améliore la perception du goût et favorise la digestion. Il soulage la toux, le rhume et d'autres problèmes respiratoires. Ce n'est pas un laxatif, il provoque plutôt la constipation.

Himalayan cedar Suradruma

 

Cedrus deodara

It is useful as an expectorant in cough. It relieves asthma and other respiratory diseases by clearing the airways and enhancing the movements of the respiratory tract.

Dabra Prisniparni/Guha Uraria picta

 It has anti-inflammatory, expectorant, and diuretic properties. It is used as a tonic to nerves and the heart. It is useful in bone fracture healing.

Sugarcane Ikshu Saccarum officinarum

 

It is sweet in taste and cold in potency. It cures a burning sensation associated with urinary tract infection. It is a diuretic and increases the quantity of urine. It gives energy and strength. It increases the blood glucose levels fast.

AS ANUPANA/PRAKSHEPADRAVYA-TO BE TAKEN MIXED WITH THE KASHAYA

Laaja/ fried and puffed rice grain.  

Détails de la fabrication

 As already discussed, Balajeerakadi kashayam is prepared using 9 herbs as its 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. For your special attention, Viswa should be crushed and tied up separately in a white clean cotton cloth as a Potali. This is to prevent the excess dissolution of the contents and to maintain the exact consistency of the kashayam. 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 without breaking the potli. 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 Prédominance avec roga margas.

Balajeerakadi kashayam is kapha Vaata hara.

It acts on abhyantara rogamarga 

Dosage and Usage of Balajeerakadi kashayam

Dosage: two Pala.

Utilisation :

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.

Here, the prakshepadravya is 2-3gms of Laaja or fried and puffed rice grain.

Exercices et yoga.

As balajeerakadi kashayam targets mainly the respiratory system and immunity, only mild exercises are advised. Also, specific yogacharya including naadeesuddhi pranayama, bhujangaasana, is recommended.

Regular exercise helps improve the bioavailability of the medicine and food ingested and leads to positive health.

Le yoga permet de maintenir l'harmonie à l'intérieur du corps et avec le système environnant.

Nadisudhi pranayama

Bhujangasana

Exercices simples pour la santé des poumons et du cœur

 

Tous les exercices et les efforts physiques doivent être décidés et effectués uniquement sous la supervision d'un expert médical. 

Alimentation et comportement recommandés

Régime alimentaire :

  • À éviter

Drinking ice-cold water – loss of appetite and increased kapha leads to respiratory problems.

Les repas lourds et les aliments difficiles à digérer provoquent des indigestions.

la malbouffe - elle perturbe la digestion et réduit la biodisponibilité du médicament

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 – increase kapha and cause respiratory problems

le lait caillé - provoque le vidaaha et, par conséquent, de nombreuses autres maladies

  • A ajouter

Des repas légers et des aliments faciles à digérer

Green gram, soups, honey.

aliments fraîchement cuits et chauds traités avec des graines de cumin, du gingembre, du poivre noir, de l'ajwain, etc.

 Comportement :

Protect yourself from cold climate.

Better to avoid exposure to excessive sunlight, wind, rain or dust.

Maintenir une alimentation et un sommeil réguliers.

Évitez de retenir ou de forcer les envies comme l'urine, les selles, la toux, les éternuements, etc.

Effets secondaires et contre-indications

Aucun effet secondaire connu n'a été signalé.

As it contains sugarcane, Diabetic persons should not take it without a prescription from the physician.

 Références classiques

SAHASRAYOGAM SWASAKASA SHLOKA 2 

Médicaments équivalents.

Dasamoolakaduthrayam kashayam

Marques disponibles

AVS Kottakal

SNA OUSHADHASALA

AVP Coimbatore

AVN Madurai

Ayurvéda du Kerala

Oushadhi

Documents de recherche

Balaa

General study including effect in Swaasa-kaasa due to presence of bronchodialotor vasicinone

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281611837_Sida_cordifolia_a_Traditional_Herb_in_Modern_Perspective_-_A_Review

Jeeraka

Study o effect on lipid profile. Leads to the efficacy to liquify the block in channels and clearing airways.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Neda_Roshanravan2/publication/326900481_Cumin_Cuminum_cyminum_L_is_a_safe_approach_for_management_of_lipid_parameters_A_systematic_review_and_meta-analysis_of_randomized_controlled_trials_Cumin_supplementation_and_lipid_parameters/links/5c8e836292851c1df948073d/Cumin-Cuminum-cyminum-L-is-a-safe-approach-for-management-of-lipid-parameters-A-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-of-randomized-controlled-trials-Cumin-supplementation-and-lipid-parameters.pdf

Vrisha

Presesnce of vasicine and oxyvasicine beneficial in respiratory diseases.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306020300_Therapeutic_use_of_Adhatoda_vasica