jivaka :

General Use:

To treat of haematemesis and fever, seminal weakness, burning sensations, emaciation, tuberculosis and general debility.

Refrigerant, aphrodisiac, febrifuge and tonic.

Therapeutic Uses:

swasa

daha

kasa

kshaya

Raktapitta,

Raktavikara,

karshya

shosha

rejuvenating tonic, styptic aphrodisiac, and antioxidant. It has a cooling action and cures bleeding diathesis, fever, phthisis, and burning sensation. It is an important ingredient of Ashtawarga, under Jivaniya Varga of Charaka Samhita, which literally means ‘life-giver’.

Systemic Use:

It is used in condition of sterility, vitiated condition of pitta and vata, seminal weakness, internal and external haemorrhages, dysentery, fever, emaciation, burning sensation and general debility. Paste of pseudo bulb can be applied externally in case of insect bites, and when mixed with other plants are used in the treatment of rheumatism. Ayurvedic Dynamics of the plants includes sweetness in taste, cold in potency, pacifies vata and aggravates kapha. It has also been used pharmacologically in bleeding diathesis, Burning sensation, and Phthisis (lung disease)

Administration:

Paste of pseudo bulb can be applied externally in case of insect bites, and when mixed with other plants are used in the treatment of rheumatism

externally  in  case  of  insect  bites,  and  when  mixed  with 

other  plants  are  used  in the  treatment  of  rheumatism

Pharmacological:

Balya,

Pittahara,

Rasayana,

vatahara,

Dhatuvardhaka,

shukrala,

Bramhana¸

Snehopaga,

jeevaniya

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jivaka - Malaxis acuminata D.Don, Microstylis wallichii Lindl. - Orchidaceae