Chardi Nigrahana Mahakashaya of Charaka Samhita - A Critical Review

  • Priyanka Sanagala Post Graduate Scholar, Department of Dravya Guna, Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwar College of Ayurveda and Hospital, Hassan, Karnataka, India.
  • Anuradha K N Assistant Professor, Department of Dravya Guna, Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwar College of Ayurveda and Hospital, Hassan, Karnataka, India.
  • Akshata Post Graduate Scholar, Department of Dravya Guna, Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwar College of Ayurveda and Hospital, Hassan, Karnataka, India.
  • Ashwini Benjarwad Post Graduate Scholar, Department of Rasashastra and Bhaishajya Kalpana, Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwar College of Ayurveda and Hospital, Hassan, Karnataka, India.
Keywords: Ayurveda, Charaka Samhita, Chardi Nigrahana Mahakashaya, Nidana, Samprapti, Chikitsa

Abstract

Chardi Nigrahana Mahakashaya denotes group of ten drugs which acts on Chardi Roga. The term Chardi can be correlated with vomiting or emesis in modern medicine. It is a pathological condition which is different from therapeutic procedure of vomiting called Vamana Karma. Vomiting is described as forceful expulsion of contents of stomach through mouth and sometimes nose. Acharya Charaka has described Chardi Nigrahana Mahakashaya in Sutrasthana as 28th Gana of the 50 Mahakashaya Gana. On close observation it is known that plants of this group have specific Rasa, Guna, Veerya, Vipaka and Prabhava by which they act. This article is an attempt to describe the mode of action of Chardi Nigrahana Mahakashaya.

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Priyanka Sanagala, Anuradha K N, Akshata, & Ashwini Benjarwad. (2022). Chardi Nigrahana Mahakashaya of Charaka Samhita - A Critical Review. Journal of Ayurveda and Integrated Medical Sciences, 7(1), 191 - 194. Retrieved from https://jaims.in/jaims/article/view/1624
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