Chandraprabha Bati
Shree
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Chandraprabha Bati acts like a nutritive tonic, antacid, laxative,
diaphoretic and useful as a diuretic, for
albuminuria and renal calculi. It is also indicated
in gonorrhoea, pruritis vulva, lumbago and chicken
pox.
Main
ingredients of Chandraprabha Bati
Shilajit
(Asphaltum)
:
Shilajit
is especially employed in genito-urinary diseases like
anasarca renal stone, renal and bladder calculi and
anuria. It is indicated in diabetes where it reduces
the quantity of sugar in urine, in nervous diseases
like hysteria, neuresthenia, epilepsy and insanity, in
uterine troubles like amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea and
menorrhagia. It is also indicated in respiratory
diseases like asthma, tuberculosis, phthisis, in
hepatic and gastrointestinal diseases like gall stone,
jaundice, enlarged spleen, fermentive dyspepsia and
also in diseases like leprosy, eczema and elephantisis.
It is also beneficial in bone fracture.
Giloy
(Tinospora cordifolia)
It
is an antiperiodic, alterative and a diuretic. Its
stem and root are valuable tonic in debilitating
diseases, intermittent fever and dyspepsia. Chief
constituents are berberine, bitter substance.
Chiraita
(Swertia chirata)
Possesses
stomachic, antidiarrhoetic, anthelmintic, tonic and
febrifuge properties. It contains ophelic acid, an
amorphous bitter principle. Chiratin a yellow bitter
glucoside, resins, gum, carbonates and phosphate of
potash, lime and magnesia, ash 4% to 6%.
Kapoor
kachri (Hedychium spicatum)
Root
is employed as stomachic, carminative, bitter, tonic
and stimulant, useful in dyspepsia. It contains
starch, cellulose, mucilage, albumen, saccharine
matter, acid resin, fixed oil, essential methyl
paracumarin acetate and an odorous body.
Bach
(Sweet flag, Acorus calamus)
Root
and rhizome are stimulant, emetic, nauseant, stomachic,
aromatic, expectorant, carminative, antispasmodic and
nervine sedative. In large doses it produces violent
and persistent emesis.
It
contains a volatile essential oil, acorin, a bitter
principle acoretin (choline), calamine (useful in
dysentery), starch, mucilage, a little tannin. The
dried rhizome yields 1.5% to 2.7% of a neutral yellow,
aromatic, essential oil having an agreeable odour. The
fresh aerial parts yield about 0.123% of the volatile
oil, the unpeeled roots, however, give a much better
yield from 1.5% to 3.5%. acorin, a glucoside, is a
honey like liquid very bitter and aromatic, soluble in
alcohol, chloroform, ether, splitting into sugar and
volatile oil. Acoretin is a resin like body yielding
by reduction ethereal oil and sugar.
Haldi
(Curcuma longa)
Curcuma
longa has been shown to possess antiarthritic
activity. Curcumine combines the chloretic and
hydrocholagogic action in addition to antiseptic
property and it is envisaged that this will be an
ideal therapeutic agent in conditions of the biliary
system and gall bladder where staphycoccal infection
exists.
Curcuma
longa also possesses antibacterial activity against
gram positive and gram negative organism which was
less as compared to penicillin and streptomycin.
Daru
haldi (Berbery, Berberis aristata)
Root
and wood are rich in a yellow alkaloid “berberine”,
a bitter substance, which dissolves in acid and forms
salts of the alkaloid. Root contains two more
alkaloids. It is very useful in cases of remittent as
well as intermittent fever and also in debility
consequent there from. Decoction with emblic myrabolan
is useful in painful micturation from bilious or acid
urine. In combination with other Ayurvedic medicines
it is given in leucorrhoea and menorrhagia.
Indications:
Chandraprabha
Bati is a classical ayurvedic supplements. It is
generally known as "Uterine Tonic".
- Useful
as a diuretic and renal calculi.
- Useful in gonorrhoea, pruritis vulva, lumbago.
- It is effective in uterine troubles like amenorrhoea,
dysmenorrhoea and menorrhagia in female
- Antacid and laxative
- Diaphoretic
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