Aragwadharishtam is an effective Ayurvedic medicine for all types of skin diseases. It has such a potent wound-healing action that it can be used in chronic non-healing ulcers and even leprosy.
Benefits of Aragwadharishtam
It is used in all types of skin diseases like psoriasis, eczema, scabies, acne, pustules, blisters, vitiligo etc. Being a blood purifier, this medicine helps in healing skin problems. It is also found efficient in removing scars and improving complexion.
It improves functions of circulatory system.
It is also used in the treatment of food poison, vomiting, piles, worms, ulcerations and wounds etc.
It is good in obesity and corrects Malabsorption. It is found beneficial in many life style diseases where imbalanced Rakta-Kapha-Pitta are involved.
It is useful in skin disease with itching and burning sensations. Kapha dosha is the major cause of itching and burning sensation is due to pitta dosha. Aragwadhadi gana being Kapha-pitta hara is best choice for this condition.
It can be used in kapha vitiated conditions like whitish and coated tongue, numbness over extremities, itchy skin rashes and oozing skin.
It is useful in the treatment of urinary disorders like reduced frequency and quantity of urination, high turbidity and urinary tract infections.
It is found useful in treating varicose veins with skin irritations like itching and numbness. This combination helps in healing wounds and ulcers associated with varicose veins. Once the wounds are healed, Aragwadharishtam restores the normal skin over the scar tissue.
Indications of Aragwadharishtam
- Chardi – Vomiting
- Kushta – All types of skin diseases
- visham – All types of poisons and toxins, allergic reactions.
- Jwaram – Fever
- Kapham – Conditions of imbalanced Kapha dosha
- Kandu – Itching
- Prameham – Diabetes and urinary tract disorders
- Dhushtavrana visodhanam – cleanses the pus and debris from chronic deep ulcerations and wounds
Ingredients of Aragwadharishtam
| Golden shower tree | Aragwadha
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Cassia fistula |
It has anti-fungal, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumour, hepato-protective, and hypoglycaemic activities. Also, it has many anti-oxidants. Flowers are used for fever. Root acts as a diuretic and is used in adenopathy, leprosy, skin diseases, syphilis and tubercular glands. The bark and leaves are used for curing skin diseases.
| Conessi | Indrayava | Holarrhena antidysentric). Wall. |
It has been used in bleeding piles, diarrhoea, eczema, fever and colic. It is beneficial in amoebic dysentery and many other gastro-intestinal disorders.
| Yellow snake tree | Paatali | Stereospermum suaveolens |
It is useful in the treatment of diabetes, pain, fever, inflammations and asthma.
| Black nightshade | Kaakatikta | Solanum nigrum |
It has anti-oxidant, diuretic, anti-pyretic and anti-inflammatory properties. It is used to treat mouth ulcer, skin diseases, allergic rhinitis, urinary disorders etc. It is well-known for its anti-cancerous properties.
| Margosa, Neem | Nimba | Azadirachta indica A. JUSS. |
The important health benefits of this drug include its ability to treat dandruff, soothe irritation, protect the skin, boost the immune system, and reduce inflammation. It also speeds up wound healing, treats gastric conditions, slows the aging process, improves hair and scalp health, maintains sexual organ health, has anti-cancer potential, and helps treat diabetes.
| Heart leaved moonseed | Amruta
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Tinospora cordifolia (WILLD.) HOOK.F. & THOMS |
It is effective anti-ulcer drug in action. It is a well-known anti-oxidant and has significant anti-inflammatory property.
| Drumstick | Sakhotaka/
Madhurasa |
Moringa oleifera |
Its highly nutritional, a rich source of natural vitamins and minerals. It improves blood circulation to the joints. As it contains a lot of Vitamin A, it is beneficial in treatment of many eye diseases especially night blindness. It has anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal and antibiotic properties. It is useful in bone health and muscular health.
| Flame of the forest | Palasa/ Sruvavriksha
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Butea monosperma |
It stimulates digestive fire. It is used as an aphrodisiac and a laxative. It is used for worm infestation, bone fractures, abdominal ulcers & tumours, piles and other ano-rectal diseases. It has wound healing properties.
| false pareira root/ velvet leaf | Paatha | Cissampelos pareira L.
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It has anti-inflammatory and antiseptic actions. This plant is used to treat gynaecological conditions. Patha is used in the treatment of chronic non-healing ulcers and sinuses. It is also used in the treatment of chronic skin diseases and in the treatment of poisonous bites.
| Indian gentian | Bhoonimba
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Swertia chirata (ROXB. EX. FLEM.) KAR. |
It is an important herb used in Ayurveda for the treatment of fever, inflammation, skin diseases, intestinal parasites and diabetes. It has hepatoprotective action also. It is used in treatment of piles, ulcers and fevers.
| Strobilanthes | Sairyaka | Strobilanthes kunthiana |
It is used against neurological disorders, sciatica, glandular swellings and oedema.
| Pointed gourd | Patola | Trichosanthes dioica Roxb. |
It has anti-diabetic, hepato-protective, anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and wound-healing properties. It has anti-oxidants. It is useful in lowering cholesterol and skin diseases. It acts as a laxative.
| Indian beech tree | Karanja | Pongamia glabra |
It has anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, and wound-healing properties.
| Indian elm | Chiruvilwa/Pootikaranja | Holoptelea integrifolia |
It has anti-diabetic, anthelmintic and wound healing properties. It is beneficial in healing haemorrhoids.
| Indian devil tree/Scholar’s tree/White cheesewood | Saptacchada
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Alstonia scholaris.R.Br. |
It is a herb with a rare combination of laghu (light) and Snigdha (oily) properties. It has immune-stimulatory, wound-healing, analgesic, anthelmintic, anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial, anti-diarrhoeal, anti-oxidant, hepato-protective, anti-stress and immune-modulatory properties. It is used in the treatment of colic, indigestion, intestinal parasites, chronic & foul ulcers, asthma, and skin diseases including leprosy.
| Ceylon leadwort | Agni
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Plumbago zeylanica L.
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It aids digestion and increases appetite. It has anti-inflammatory and anti-cancerous properties. It can also be used in liver diseases.
| Bitter gourd | Sushaveephala/ karavella | Momordia charantia |
It is a drug as well as well as a dietary supplement. It has anti-diabetic, abortifient, anthelmintic, anthelmintic, contraceptive, emmenagogue, and laxative properties. It helps to treat many diseases like Type 2 Diabetes mellitus, dyslipidaemia, obesity, cancer, dysmenorrhoea, malaria, gout, jaundice, abdominal pain, kidney stone, leprosy, leucorrhoea, piles, pneumonia, psoriasis, scabies, rheumatism and fever.
| Wild indigo/Purple tephrosia | Sarapunkha/ Baana | Tephrosia purpurea |
It is used to treat hepatic disorders, splenomegaly, Pain and distension of abdomen, ulcerations and wounds, poisons & toxins. Being Tikta rasa and laghu, it is beneficial in cough & cold, fever and asthma.
| Emetic nut | Ghonta/Madanaphala | Randia dumetorum |
It has wound-healing, anti-inflammatory, immune-stimulant and hepato-protective properties. It is a well-known drug used for therapeutic induced vomiting when given in high doses. It reduces the vitiated Kapha dosha in body. It reduces fat and clears the channels. It stimulates the immune system and helps the cells to fight better against infections. It is used in the treatment of respiratory disorders like common cold, chronic cough, asthma and bronchitis. It is also found beneficial in indigestion, pain & distension of abdomen, chronic & non-healing wounds etc.
Details of the manufacturing
As already discussed, Aragwadharishtam has 19 herbal ingredients and jaggery.
All these ingredients should be washed well and dried up in shade.
Take one Pala each of all the 19 herbal ingredients in a clean vessel.
Add 32 Prastha clean water into it. Make it boil. The fire should be kept low to make sure that all the active ingredients in the herbs needed are absorbed well into the water. Make sure to mix it in between with a wooden ladle. Reduce the quantity into one by fourth of the initial quantity. Once the quantity is reduced to one by fourth 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. To this decoction, add 2 Tulam of Jaggery and 16 Pala of Dhataki flower.
It should be transferred into an earthen pot coated inside with ghee. Cover it with a clean white cloth and keep it closed and airtight. Keep it for 30 days in a dark place with a low temperature. After 30 days, open it and filter through a clean white cloth. Keep it in an airtight glass bottle. Arishtam can be used for a longer period of time without any preservatives.
Dosha Dooshya Predominance with roga margas.
Aragwadharishtam is Kaphapithahara and anulomana.
It acts on bahya, antar and madhyama rogamargas
Dosage and Usage of Aragwadharishtam
Dosage: 25-30 ml after food
Usage:
Arishtam is advised to be taken after food, once the ingested food and arishtam will digest together.
It is taken two times or three times a day immediately after food.
Exercises and Yoga.
As Aragwadharishtam targets mainly blood, skin, urinary system, and wound healing following exercises and specific yoga asanas like Ardhamathsyentra asanam, Halasanam, Vakrasanam, Dhanurasanam etc recommended.
Regular exercise helps improve bioavailability of the medicine and food ingested and leads to positive health.
Yoga can maintain harmony within and with surroundings.
Ardha mathsyentra asanam
Halasanam
Vakrasanam
Dhanurasanam
All the exercises and physical exertions must be decided and done under the supervision of a medical expert only.
Recommended diet and behaviour
Diet:
- To be avoided
Red meat, fried non-veg items, and sea foods
Heavy meals and difficult to digest foods – cause indigestion.
junk foods and spicy food- cause disturbance in digestion and reduces the bioavailability of the medicine
carbonated drinks – makes the stomach more acidic and disturbed digestion
refrigerated and frozen foods – causes 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 sedentary lifestyle. Be active.
Better to avoid exposure to excessive sunlight wind rain or dust.
Maintain a regular food and sleep schedule.
Avoid forcing or holding of natural urges like urine, faeces, vomiting, hiccups etc.
Avoid Stress and emotional imbalance as much as possible.
Side effects and contraindications
No known side effects reported.
People with IBS or a sensitive stomach may develop diarrhoea when not supervised by a qualified Ayurveda physician.
Diabetic people and people with gastric ulcer should not take arishta-asavas.
Classical references
ASHTANGAHRUDAYAM SUTRASTHANAM 15/17,18
Equivalent medicines.
Khadirarishtam
Brands Available
AVS Kottakal
Research papers
Aragwadhadi gana – a review
Kakatikta – anti-cancerous property
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6274361/
Sushaveephala/Karavella
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15182917/
Madanaphala -Anti-inflammatory and hepato-protective
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27471465/
Nimba – In dentistry
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4441161/
Nimba – anti-microbial effect on skin
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6558881/