SHADANGAM KASHAYAM -Benefits, Ingredients, Indications, Dosage, Usage, Preparation, Side effects, Equivalent Medicines, Research Papers

Shadangam kashayam is an Ayurvedic medicine for improving digestive fire. It cures fever and associated ailments.

Shadangam kashayam Uses

  • It is widely used as a preventive medicine in pandemic times like COVID-19 and as an immunity modulator.
  • It reverses the pathology of fever by improving digestive fire and thereby removing ama.
  • Thus, involved in healing many virulent fevers like Dengue, Malaria, Typhoid, etc.
  • It is found beneficial in the early stages of Diabetes, Rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, etc as these conditions have evident Ama associated.

Indications

  • Paachanam – improves digestive fire and removing Ama
  • Thrt – Excessive thirst
  • Jwara – Various types and stages of fever.

Shadangam kashayam Ingredients

Coco grass, Nut grass, Purple nutsedge	         Ghana/Abda                             Cyperusrotundus L.

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

Indian sandalwood                       	  Chandana	                         Santalum album

It is famous for its anti-tumor and anti-cancerous properties. It has a very expensive essential oil made from it, making it famous in the cosmetic industry. It is an anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, and anti-proliferative agent. It is beneficial for the treatment of acne, psoriasis, eczema, common warts, and molluscum contagiosum.

Dried ginger	                                  Sunthi	                         Zingiber officinalis

It is unctuous and hot in potency with pungent taste but becomes sweet after digestion. It is an aphrodisiac and balances vata and kapha.

It improves ability to taste and promotes digestion. Relieves cough cold and other respiratory problems. It is not a laxative, rather causes constipation.

Fragrant swamp mallow	                       Hreebera/ Ambu                             Pavonia odorat

It is used as a coolant, diaphoretic, diuretic, and demulcent.

Small-flowered fumitory	Parpataka	       Fumaria                              parviflora AUCT. NON. LAM.

This drug is mentioned as the prime remedy of fever in Ayurveda. Fumaria has been traditionally used as a laxative and diuretic. This plant is applied in the treatment of dermatologic conditions such as eczema. The drug is suggested to be beneficial in hepatobiliary disorders, and also for colic pain.

vetiver	                                         Useera	                         Vetiveria zizanioides (L.) NASH

Vetiver is a coolant, yet aids in digestion. It is widely used in treating fever, dysuria, burning sensation, fatigue syndrome, skin disorders, etc. Potable water prepared with this also has many health benefits like preventing ulcers.

Details of the manufacturing

As already discussed, It has 6 ingredients.

All these ingredients should be washed well and dried up in the shade.

Take an equal quantity of all ingredients in dried & crushed form in an earthen pot. For your special attention, Sunthi (Ginger) 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 to one by eighth of the initial quantity. Make sure to mix it in between with a wooden 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 Predominance with roga margas.

  • Shadangam kashayam is Kapha-Pittahara and amapaachana.
  • It acts on abhyantara and bahir-rogamarga

Dosage and Usage

Dosage: two Pala.

Usage:

Kashayam is advised to take an 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 the disease and the patient gives the best results.

Exercises and Yoga.

As this kashayam is used mostly in fever conditions, no exercises are recommended. In other diseases, as it targets mainly GIT and whole-body channels, stretching exercises and following a specific Yogacharya with yoga asanas like pavanamuktasana, vajrasana, etc are recommended for improving circulation and digestion.

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

Yoga can maintain harmony within and with surroundings.

Паванамуктасана

Vajrasana

All the exercises and physical exertions must be decided and done under the supervision of a medical expert only.

Recommended diet and behaviour

Diet:

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  • Heavy meals and difficult-to-digest foods – cause indigestion.
  • junk foods- cause disturbance in digestion and reduce the bioavailability of the medicine
  • carbonated drinks – makes the stomach more acidic and disturb digestion
  • refrigerated and frozen foods – cause weak and sluggish digestion by weakening Agni (digestive fire)
  • curd – causes vidaaha and thereby many other diseases

To be added

  • Light meals and easily digestible foods
  • Green gram, soups, buttermilk boiled with turmeric, ginger and curry leaves
  • freshly cooked and warm food processed with cumin seeds, ginger, black pepper, ajwain etc

Behaviour:

  • Avoid a sedentary lifestyle. Be active.
  • Avoid stress.
  • Protect yourself from very hot and cold climates.
  • 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 were reported.

Classical references

SAHASRAYOGA JWARACHIKITHSA SHLOKA 24

Equivalent medicines.

Paachanamrutham kashayam

Brands Available

  • AVS Коттакал
  • Oushadhi

Research papers

Sunthi

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3665023/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92775/

Усера

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23131375/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19374265/

Parpadaka

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28265545/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24621260/

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration, United States. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Please consult your GP before the intake.

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