⚠ Cautions — read first
- supervision On diabetes medication — use only with medical supervision and blood-sugar monitoring to avoid hypoglycaemia.
Rasa tikta, kashayaGuna laghu, rukshaVirya ushnaVipaka katu
Vata ↑ if in excessPitta ↓ pacifiesKapha ↓ pacifies
Traditional actions
- Classically named madhunāśinī and traditionally used as a supportive dravya in prameha (the classical group broadly overlapping diabetes).
View sources — 2 classical & official references ›
- Classical text Bhāvaprakāśa (incl. Nighaṇṭu)
- Government / official The Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India, Part I, Vol. I