Description

AVN Gulgulutiktakam Kashayam

• Guggulutiktam Kashayam is an Ayurvedic medicine used in treating inflammatory conditions of skin, joints and bones. It is in herbal decoction form. It is also available in Kashayam tablet form.

Benefits:

• It is used in treatment of Rheumatoid arthritis, gout.
• It is used in non healing wounds, abscess, sinuses and fistula.
• Useful in the treatment of psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, allergic dermatitis, hives.
• An excellent medicine for all types of inflammations especially pertaining to connective tissues, bones and joints.
• It is also beneficial in skin diseases of Vata-Kapha predominance.
• Reputed in tubercular glands, boils, scabies, eczema, syphilis and anemia.
• Used in treating lumbar and cervical spondylosis.
• Doctors also prescribe this for
• Obesity, to lose weight
• High cholesterol
• Dark pigmentation on facial skin
• Uterine fibroids, fatty liver changes

Side-Effects:

• In very high doses, it may worsen gastritis.
• It is not suited in people with high Pitta conditions (sensitive stomach and skin). In them, further dilution with water
• might be required.
• It is best to administer this after food in sensitive stomach patients.
• One person complained of red rashes all over the body following its intake after 1 week.
• It is best to avoid this during pregnancy.
• It can be administered in lower doses during lactation period and in children for shorter period of few weeks of time.

Dosage:

• 5 – 10 ml, before food, or on empty stomach, once or twice a day or as directed by Ayurvedic doctor.
  As per traditional reference, it is advised along with rock alt and jaggery.
• If the kashayam is concentrated, then it needs to be mixed with equal quantity of water and should be taken.
• AVN manufactures this in Kashayam tablet form.
• Dose of Guggulutiktam kashayam tablets is 2 tablets 2 times a day before food or as directed by Ayurvedic doctor.
• Adjuvants:
  Guggulu fried and ground – 2 gm, honey, purified sulphur, Rasa sindhooram or Siddha makaradhwajam.

Pathya:

• Broken rice with boiled vegetables and buttermilk.
• Try to avoid spicy food
• Rock salt, ghee, bitter gourd, elephant yam, plantains, green gram, ginger are good to take.
• For indigestion this may be taken in 300 ml of water boiled with 10 gm of black cumin.

Synonyms:

• Gugguluthikthakam kashayam
• Guggulutikthaka kashaya

Ingredients:

The kashayam is actually prepared by the formula of an herbal ghee called – Guggulutiktaka Ghrita.
The herbal ingredients of this herbal ghee preparation is used to prepare water decoction.
The ingredients

• Nimba – neem – Azadirachta indica
• Patola – Trichosanthes dioica
• Vyaghri – Solanum xanthocarpum
• Guduchi – Tinospora cordifolia
• Vasa – Adhatoda vasica
• Patha – Cyclea peltata / Cissampelos pariera
• Vidanga – Embelia ribes
• Suradaru – Cedrus deodara
• Gajopakulya – Piper chaba
• Yavakshara – Hordeum vulgare
• Sarjikshara
• Nagara – Zingiber officinalis
• Nisha – Turmeric
• Mishreya – Anethum sowa
• Chavya – Piper chaba
• Kushta – Saussurea lappa
• Tejovati – Zanthoxylum alatum
• Maricha – Black pepper
• Vatsaka – Holarrhena antidysenterica
• Deepyaka – Trachyspermum ammi
• Agni – Plumbago zeylanica
• Rohini – Picrorrhiza kurroa
• Arushkara – Purified Semecarpus anacardium
• Vacha – Acorus calamus
• Kanamoola – Piper longum – root
• Yukta – Pluchea lanceolata
• Manjishta – Rubia cordifolia
• Ativisha – Aconitum heterophyllum
• Vishani – Aconitum species
• Yavani – Trachyspermum ammi
• Shuddha Guggulu – Purified Commiphora mukul