Saraswatham ghrutham is an Ayurvedic medicine for improving speech, memory and intellect. In the present scenario, it is used widely as a memory booster in school going children.
Benefits of Saraswatham ghrutham
This combination is explained as a medhya yoga which improves brain functions and speech.
Saraswatham ghrutham is used as a medicine for sick and a supplement for healthy.
In the traditional Ayurveda, this combination is used for speech disorders, memory loss and poor intellect.
It improves the quality of speech. It works on both structural and functional issues related to speech. As it has an effect on the mind and mood of the person, it improves confidence of the person.
There is an old tradition in Kerala to take “Mantrapoota” ghrutham (ghrutham worshipped with specific mantras) in early morning after bath and prayer. It needs to be done with strict Pthya like only vegetarian diet. Saraswatham ghrutham is one of the combinations used in this manner for small kids to improve brain functions and speech.
It boosts memory. It adds to concentration.
It is used in children with special needs especially ASD after proper de-worming and Amapaachana. It improves language and communication skills.
Indications of Saraswatham ghrutham
Improves –
- Vag – Speech
- Medha – Intellect
- Smriti – Memory
- Vahni – Digestive fire
Ingredients of Saraswatham ghrutham
| Chebulic myrobalan
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Abhaya/Pathya | Terminalia chebula RETZ. & WILLD. |
It is one of the main drugs in Ayurveda, one of the Rasayana and a member of an important group, Triphala. It is used in a wide variety of diseases as it possesses anti-bacterial, antiseptic, anti-fungal, anti-viral, anti-diabetic, anti-mutagenic, anti-oxidant, anti-ulcer, and wound-healing properties
Vyosha – Group of 3 herbs namely,
| 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.
| Black pepper | Maricha | Piper nigrum L. |
Black Pepper is extremely useful for respiratory disorders and asthma. In conditions like hoarse voice, dental caries, in removing bad breadth (halitosis), the gargling of Black Pepper Powder along with salt and warm water may be used. Black pepper is also used in case of Heavy diets as it aids digestion. Black pepper is also used in the weakness and loosening of the anal sphincter especially in case of piles. For Headache and migraine, nasal drops of Black pepper powder prepared in milk is used. It helps to remove the chronic headache. The same preparation can also be used as local application on fore head in the form of paste. Black pepper reduces itching and discharge through the lesions when used in the form of local application on skin disorders.
| Long pepper | Pippali | Piper longum |
It has carminative action and maybe used as appetizer. The fruit and root of Pippali are used in the form of powder to treat fever, diarrhoea, piles, cough, hiccough, asthma, hoarseness of voice, flatulence, colic, vomiting, acid gastritis, oedema, diseases of mouth, eye diseases, diseases of semen, diseases of women, jaundice, and earache.
Pippali mixed with honey alleviates cough, dyspnoea, fever splenomegaly, and hiccough.
| 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.
| Calamus root/sweet flag | Ugragandha | Acorus calamus L. |
The root is aromatic. It has stimulant, emetic, expectorant, emmenagogue, aphrodisiac, laxative, diuretic, antispasmodic, carminative, and anthelmintic properties. It is slightly tonic, and excitant, and forms a useful adjunct to other tonics and stimulants. It may be used in cases of flatulent colic, atonic dyspepsia etc.
| Drumstick | Sigru | 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.
Saindhava Lavana – Rock salt
Trikatu Churna is helpful in following health conditions.[36]
- Constipation with mucous or sticky stool.
- Loss of appetite.
- Indigestion.
- Gas or flatulence.
- Bloating.
- Abdominal distension.
- Irritable bowel syndrome.
- Common cold (acute phase during running nose).
- Cough with thin white phlegm.
- Asthma (chest congestion due to phlegm).
- Weight loss (obesity).
- Body aches with feeling of heaviness in the body.
- High cholesterol levels.
- Atherosclerosis.
- High blood pressure due to hypercholesterolemia
Details of the manufacturing
As already discussed, Saraswatham ghrutham has 8 ingredients.
All these ingredients should be washed well and dried up in shade.
For preparation of ghrithakalpana,
We use
- Snehadravya – 1 part
(Cow’s ghee)
- Dravadravya
Goat’s milk – 6 parts
- Kalkadravya (For making paste) – 1/4parts
All 8 ingredients mentioned earlier
Take the prescribed milk, ghruta and kalkadravya in an earthen pot. Make it boil and then cook in the open vessel with low fire. Reduce the quantity into the quantity of ghrutha. Make sure to mix it in between with a ladle. 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. Continue cooking and stir in between. Check the Paaka as per Snehapakavidhi. Once the desired Paaka is attained, filter the ghruta and keep it in air tight glass bottles after cooling. Ghrutha can be used for a longer period of time without any preservatives.
Dosha Dooshya Predominance with roga marga.
Saraswatham ghrutham is Kapha-Vaata hara and medhya.
It acts on aabhyantara, baahya and madhyama rogamargas.
Dosage and Usage of Saraswatham ghrutham
Dosage:
Depends upon the digestive power of the person. Usually it is given 15g-20g in the early morning, daily in an adult person with good appetite and digestion as samanasneha.
Usage:
When used as Samanasneha, Ghrutham is advised to take in empty stomach, once the ingested food is digested well and when the person has appetite.
Usage of ghrutham with prescribed prakshepadravyas according to the condition of disease and the patient gives the best results mostly.
Exercises and Yoga.
As Saraswatham ghrutham targets mainly the mind and immunity, stretching and relaxing type of exercises are advised. Also, specific Yogacharya including naadisuddhi pranayama, bhujangaasana, is recommended.
Regular exercise helps improve the bioavailability of medicine and food ingested and leads to positive health.
Yoga can maintain harmony within the body and with the surrounding system.
Nadisudhi pranayama
Bhujangasana
Simple exercises for lungs and heart health
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
Heavy meals and difficult to digest foods – cause indigestion.
junk foods- cause a 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.
Drinking water boiled with dried ginger.
Green gram, soups, milk, ghee, fruits and vegetables, dry fruits and nuts in moderate quantity.
freshly cooked and warm food processed with cumin seeds, ginger, black pepper, ajwain, etc
Behavior:
Avoid stress.
Protect yourself from an extreme hot & cold climate.
Better to avoid exposure to excessive sunlight, wind, rain, or dust.
Maintain a regular food and sleep schedule.
Avoid holding or forcing urges like urine, faeces, cough, sneeze, etc.
Side effects and contraindications
No known side effects reported.
Contraindication
People with derangement in fat metabolism; may it be Hyperlipidaemia or obesity or hypercholesteremia or atherosclerosis or hypertension. Most of these, associated with weak digestion, too. In such people, the ghee preparation may worsen the condition rather than curing it. But the same herbs in a water-soluble form in the decoction can act as the cure for many such derangements, even for hypercholesterolemia.
Classical references
SAHASRAYOGAM GHRTHAPRAKARANA SHLOKA 128
Equivalent medicines.
Panchagavyam ghrutham
Brands Available
AVS Kottakal
Vaidyaratnam Oushadhasala
Kerala Ayurveda
SNA Oushadhasala
Research papers
Abhaya
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4749770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5930767/
Trikatu- immunomodulatory & anti-inflammatory in RA
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24394943/
Vacha/Ugragandha
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7230970/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23049196/
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