🌿 Classical Dravyaguna Botanical Materia Medica

Ayurvedic Herbs & Botanical Encyclopedia

Explore authoritative monographs of medicinal plants from Charaka and Sushruta Samhitas. Discover their bio-energetic profiles (Rasa, Virya, Vipaka), Tridoshic balances, and clinical applications.

Total Monitored Herbs 3 Botanicals

Energetic System 6 Rasas • 3 Doshas

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Trinapanchamoola & Brimhana Tonic

Ikshu

इक्षु (Ikshu / Rasalu)

Botanical: Saccharum officinarum

Virya (Potency) Sheeta (Cooling)

Vipaka (Post-Digestive) Madhura (Sweet)

Dosha Action Pacifies Vata & Pitta; increases Kapha

Fresh sugarcane juice and its medicinal roots provide rapid hepatic glycogen restoration in severe viral jaundice. It promotes healthy diuresis without depleting essential electrolytes.

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Atisarahara & Deepana

Indrayava

इन्द्रयव (Indrayava / Kutaja Beeja)

Botanical: Holarrhena antidysenterica (Seeds)

Virya (Potency) Sheeta (Cooling)

Vipaka (Post-Digestive) Katu (Pungent)

Dosha Action Pacifies Kapha & Pitta

Indrayava are the oat-like seeds of the Kutaja tree. Containing steroid alkaloids holarrhimine and kurchine, they possess dual therapeutic virtue: curing infectious dysentery and purging high uric acid crystals from joints.

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Vishaghna & Antidote

Ishwari

ईश्वरी (Ishwari / Nakuli / Gandhanakuli)

Botanical: Aristolochia indica

Virya (Potency) Ushna (Heating)

Vipaka (Post-Digestive) Katu (Pungent)

Dosha Action Pacifies Kapha & Vata

Ishwari is revered in classical toxicology (Agada Tantra). Legends record that the mongoose chews this root as an antidote before battling venomous cobras. It expels deep-seated biological poisons.

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