Three Categories of Ayurvedic Herbs

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The Science of Ayurvedic Herbs Is based on the use of medicinal plants as raw material for Phyto-Pharmacology.

In early 19th century India had begun to published research on plants as medicine and is developing it daily.There are actually 27 categories of actions of Ayurvedic Herbs and we are looking at three of them in this blog post.We will start with the first category called JIVANYA which means herbs with increase vitality .

  • Life-giving action
  • nourishing the mind
  • nourishing sense
  • nourishing consciousnes
  • Herbs that are predominant earth and water

Here are some examples of Jivanya Food&Herbs:

  • mung dal
  • urad dal
  • licorice
  • blue green algae:
  • vidari root

 

The second category is Bruhaniya (sanskrit) which means anabolic promoting herbs or having an anabolic effect (The phase of metabolism in which simple substances are synthesized into the complex materials of living tissue)

Anabolic Foods and Herbs are:

  • Almonds
  • Cashews
  • Coconut
  • Squash
  • Dates
  • Walnuts
  • Ripe Bananas
  • Pineapples
  • Apricots

  • The third category is called "Lekhaniya" (Sanskrit) for FAT Scraping from body.

  • Honey
  • Hot water
  • Vacha
  • Kukti
  • Chitrak

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