Abstract

A CRITICAL REVIEW ON VIDANGADI LOUHAM: A CLASSICAL AYURVEDIC PANACEA

Monojit Debnath, Moulisha Biswas, Pallab Kanti Halder

Abstract

Ayurveda the century old science for healthy life prescribed a series of formulations in its various treatises, which are being used by the humans safely from the time immemorial. Some drugs are mentioned as rasayana means they are having the rejuvinative activity. They acts like panacea and are used as immunomodulator. Vidangadi louham is such a preparation which is used in many disorders and complications. In Ayurveda there are five different types of formulations are mentioned in the name of vidangadi louham. All the ingredients with their proportions in the formulation have been mentioned in details in this study. The common ingredients have been discussed scientifically in contrast of both ayurvedic and modern view with recent pharmacological evaluations. After performing the whole study it may be concluded that among the key ingredients like vidanga, sunthi, pippali, amlaki, haritaki etc. having the rasayana activity and recent pharmacological evaluations give positive effort by approving their antioxidant activity. The other individual activities have also been discussed under the discussion part. So as a gross it can be sum up that vidangadi louham is a unique combination of broad spectrum elixirs which can mitigate a series of diseases.

Keywords: Vidangadi louham, rasayana, pippali, sunthi, amalaki, haritaki