⚠ Cautions — read first
- supervision Use in pregnancy and in the very weak only under a qualified Vaidya's supervision.
Rasa kashayaGuna laghu, rukshaVirya ushnaVipaka madhura
Vata = balancesPitta ↓ pacifiesKapha ↓ pacifies
Traditional actions
- Traditionally used to support the respiratory passages and, as one of the three fruits of Triphala, to balance kapha.
View sources — 2 classical & official references ›
- Classical text Bhāvaprakāśa (incl. Nighaṇṭu)
- Government / official The Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India, Part I, Vol. I