A comprehensive review on various yogas of suryaprabha gulika: a herbo-mineral preparation
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https://doi.org/10.55718/kja.170Keywords:
Rasaushadhis, Suryaprabha gulika, Rasaushadhis, Suryaprabha gulika, Sahasrayogam, Ayurveda, AyurvedaAbstract
Rasaushadhis are the compounds consist of herbs, metals, and minerals that have substantial advantages over traditional medicines, including lower therapeutic doses, faster action, and a wider range of therapeutic uses. Suryaprabha gulika is a herbo-mineral preparation mentioned in a classical Malayalam Ayurvedic treatise, Sahasrayogam. It contains parada, gandhaka, hingu, amalaki, harithaki, vibheethaki, sunti, pippali, maricha, yavani and vatsanabha. This formulation is indicated in various diseases like swasa, kasa, sula and jwara and is widely used in the management of respiratory tract infections associated with fever by the Ayurveda medical practitioners in Kerala. There are five references are available for this formulation in different classical Ayurvedic textbooks in different prakaranas. This paper is a review article on Suryaprabha gulika which mainly comprises comparison of different yogas of the formulation with respect to the ingredients, indications and dose with special reference to the probable mode of action of yoga mentioned in Sahasrayogam.
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