Aryuveda Products

Ayurveda is a Sanskrit word which means the complete knowledge of long life. Ayurvedic medicine is traditional way of curing diseases among native Indians and is used an alternative medicine in the south Asian region. In Sanskrit ayus mean longevity and Veda means related to knowledge or science. The earlier literature on ayurveda or native medical practice books was written during the Vedic period e.g., the mid second millennium BCE. Susruta Samhita and Caraka (books) are considered as encyclopedia of Ayurvedic curing which was written during mid-first millennium BCE to about 500 CE. These are fundamental books of this knowledge. Over the following centuries the ayurveda practitioners developed   medicinal preparations, surgical procedures for treatment of different diseases. So now we can understand that the medicines produced according to the ayurvedic knowledge is called Ayurveda Products  

In Ayurveda most of the medicines are produced from plants. Hundreds of medicinal products are prepared from plants like cardamom and cinnamon along with some animal additives like milk, bones, and gallstones. Animal fats and other oils are given for consumption with medicine and for external use. In rasa shastra minerals including sulfur, arsenic lead, copper sulfate, and gold is used in medicinal preparation. 

Common form of Ayurveic medicaments are given below: 

• Fresh juice of herbs 

• Quath Malylam: Herbs are crushed and used as decoction or brewed for

   internal and external use. 

• Churna: In this form Ayurvedic products, a fine powder is used as medicine with

   water or food for internal and external uses. 

• Taila: Is a product in which herbs are crushed in the oil according to the rules

   given in the books and used for both internally and externally. 

• Ghrat: In this medicine herbs are prepared in ghee a form of refined butter and

  used for verbal and external application.  

• Bashma: In this category of Ayurvedic medicine different metals and minerals

   along with different herbs are burnt under the fire usually in a clay pot for a

   specific time and the ashes are used as a medicine. This way of preparing

   medicine is very popular in whole of the south Asia.

• Goli: Goli means tablet, different mixtures and powder of herbs are used to

   form Golies (tablets) for easy administration. 

• Dhoop:  It consists of liniments; drops and different type of pastes used for

   external application on the body. 

• Arka: In arka distillation process is used very carefully to obtain the    

   distillates of specific concentration to cure illnesses. 

Now I would like give an example of modern Ayurvedic product (medicines) used for cure of the common illness. This medicine is prepared by many modern ayurvedic pharmacies on different brand names for high blood pressure. 

Dvya Mukti is an ancient ayurvedic medicine used for high blood pressure, research by Swami Ramdey’s Patanjali Yoga Pith has shown that if this medicine is used and some yoga exercise (pranayama) is practiced according to the Swami’s other book Pranayama. 

The blood pressure is reduced to normal levels with in 3 or 4 days. 

  The ingredients used in this products are herbs found in Himalayas, like Brahmi, like sankha-pushpi, Ustukhudusa (Arabian or French lavender), Ariuna, Puskara-mula, jata-mamsi, Sarpagandha, jvotishamti, Vaca, ashvagandha and other cooling herbs like Moti Pishti Pishti.