Abstract

A CRITICAL REVIEW OF CONCEPT OF MEDHA AND MEDHYA DRUGS MENTIONED IN AYURVEDA

*Dr. Megha Gupta and Prof. Mithilesh Verma

Abstract

In Present Scientific era, memory demand for school age children are much greater than adults as well as overcome this problem many memory enhancer drugs available in markets but some drugs have adverse effect so keeping this view in mind, reduce the adverse effect medhya drugs is only choice. In Ayurvedic literature so many drugs mentioned as medhya drug. The word Medhya refers to specific pharmacological activity of a drug, which is used to improve the efficiency of mental faculties like grasping, memory etc. Hence this article is an attempt to update the concept of Medhya drugs mentioned in Ayurveda with major chemical constituents, pharmacological properties and mode of action.

Keywords: Ayurveda, Medhya drugs.