A powder of twenty-two drugs headed by bharangi, impregnated repeatedly with sour-group juices; taken with sour gruel for liver, spleen, gulma, digestive and breathing complaints, and with different vehicles for kapha, pitta or vata diseases.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- भार्ङ्ग्यादि चूर्ण
- Hindi
- भारंग्यादि चूर्ण
- English
- Bharangyadi powder
Ingredients and preparation
Ingredients
| Ingredient | As written in the text | Quantity as written |
|---|---|---|
| Bharangi (blue fountain bush)भारंगी (भार्ङ्गी) | भाडं ीर् / भारंगी | Not stated |
| Hingu (asafoetida)हींग (हिंगु) | िंहंगु / हींग | Not stated |
| Vacha (sweet flag)बच (वचा) | उग्रगंधा / वचा | Not stated |
| Maricha (black pepper)काली मिर्च (मरिच) | मरिच / मिरच | Not stated |
| Vida salt (vida lavana)बिड नमक (विड लवण) | बिड / विडनमक | Not stated |
| Barley alkali (yavakshara)जवाखार (यवक्षार) | यव़ार | Not stated |
| Black salt (sauvarchala)काला नमक (सौवर्चल) | सैवर्चल / कालानमक | Not stated |
| Ela (cardamom)इलायची (एला) | एला / इलायची | Not stated |
| Kushtha (costus root)कूठ (कुष्ठ) | कुष्टं / कूट | Not stated |
| Shunthi (dry ginger)सोंठ (शुण्ठी) | शुंठी / सोंठ | Not stated |
| Pathaपाठा (पाढ़) | पाठा | Not stated |
| Indrayava (kurchi seeds)इन्द्रजौ (इन्द्रयव) | कुटजफल / कुटज फल (इंद्रजौ) | Not stated |
| Mahanimba (Persian lilac)बकायन (महानिम्ब) | महािंनंबबीज / महानिंब (वकायन) का बीज | Not stated |
| Ajamoda (wild celery seed)अजमोद | अजमोदा / अजवाइन | Not stated |
| Chavyaचव्य (चाब) | चव्य / चाब | Not stated |
| Jiraka (cumin)जीरा (जीरक) | अजाजी / जीरा | Not stated |
| Shatapushpa (dill)सोआ (शतपुष्पा) | शताह्वा / सौंफ | Not stated |
| Chitraka (white leadwort)चित्रक (चीता) | दहन / चित्रक | Not stated |
| Gajapippali (elephant pepper)गजपीपल (गजपिप्पली) | गज-कणा / गजपीपल | Not stated |
| Pippali (long pepper)पीपल (पिप्पली) | पिप्पली / पीपल | Not stated |
| Pippalimula (long pepper root)पीपलामूल (पिप्पलीमूल) | ग्रंथि (श्लोक; टीका में नहीं) | Not stated |
| Rock salt (saindhava)सेंधा नमक (सैंधव) | सिंधु / सैंधानमक | Not stated |
| Sour fermented gruel (kanjika)कांजी (काञ्जिक)Vehicle or after-drink | Not recorded | Not stated |
| Buttermilk (takra)छाछ (तक्र)Vehicle or after-drink | Not recorded | Not stated |
| Ghee (ghrita)घी (घृत)Vehicle or after-drink | Not recorded | Not stated |
| Jaggery (guda)गुड़ (गुड)Vehicle or after-drink | Not recorded | Not stated |
| Milk (ksheera)दूध (क्षीर)Vehicle or after-drink | Not recorded | Not stated |
| Warm water (ushnodaka)गरम पानी (उष्णोदक)Vehicle or after-drink | Not recorded | Not stated |
| Sesame oil (tila taila)तिल का तेल (तैल)Vehicle or after-drink | Not recorded | Not stated |
Preparation as described
The drugs are powdered, impregnated many times with the juices of the sour-group drugs (bhavana), dried and powdered again.
इनको चूर्ण करके अम्लवर्ग के अैषधियों के रसों से इसमें अनेक बार भावना देकर कांजी मिलाकर पीवें
How it is used
Drunk mixed with sour gruel (kanji); for kapha diseases with buttermilk, for pitta diseases with ghee, jaggery and milk, and for vata diseases with warm water and oil.
इस चूर्ण को छाछ मंे मिलाकर पीवें तो समस्त शलेष्मरोग, घृतगुड व दूध में मिलाकर पीवे तो सर्व पित्तज रोग एवं गरम पानी व तेल में मिलाकर पीवंे तो वातज रोग उपशमन होते हैं।
Indicated for, as the text says
- Liver enlargement (yakridudara)(यकृत् / यकृदुदर)
- Ashthila(अष्टील / अष्टीलिका)
- Abdominal lump (gulma)(गुल्म)
- Weak digestion (agnimandya)(अग्निमांद्य)
- Cough (kasa)(कास / खांसी)
- Breathlessness and asthma (shvasa)(ऊधर्वश्वास)
- Pain (shula)(शूल)
- Vomiting (chhardi)(वमथु / वमन)
- Udara roga (abdominal enlargement)(जठर / उदर रोग)
- Grahani disorder (malabsorption)(कुि़ारोग (संग्रहणी अतिसार आदि))
- Diarrhoea (atisara)(कुि़ारोग (संग्रहणी अतिसार आदि))
- Haemorrhoids (arsha)(अर्श (श्लोक))
- Splenic enlargement (plihodara)(प्लिहा / प्लीहोदर)
- Kapha disorders(शलेष्मरोगान् / समस्त शलेष्मरोग (छाछ के साथ))
- Pitta disorders(पैत्तिकान् / सर्व पित्तज रोग (घृत, गुड, दूध के साथ))
- Vata disorders (vatavyadhi)(वातजातान् / वातज रोग (गरम पानी व तेल के साथ))
Effect on the doshas, as stated
भाडं ीर्िंहंगूग्रगंधा- मरिच- बिड - यव़ार- सैवर्चलैला:।Source wording as converted, Chapter 10 · p. 149 · v. 5-6.All references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Extraction notes
- Verses run onto PDF page 222. The dosha values follow the vehicle: buttermilk for kapha, ghee-jaggery-milk for pitta, warm water and oil for vata.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Formulation
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 10
- Extraction tasks
- T06
- Record id
- formulation_bharangyadi_churna_p221