Sanshamani Vati - An Ayurvedic Immunity Boosting Supplement & Other Benefits

ABSTRACT

Nowadays as the whole world is dealing with the ongoing pandemic condition it is very important for everyone to raise their immunity power (disease fighting capacity). As we all know that ayurveda has shown great results in people suffering from covid-19 whether it’s our kwath formulations (herbal solution) or even golden milk everything plays a major role in raising the immunity power. One such very effective herbal formulation is “samshamni vati”. So let’s discuss the health benefits of it in our body.

Let’s Firstly Discuss About Role Of Oja (Immunity)

It is a very good herbal formulation that works as best antipyretics (helps in relieving fever) herb and known for its sansham property (balances the vitiated dosha within the body by using medication by oral route) so known as “Sanshamani Vati”

• Immunity – means the self resistance power of our body to fight with the infection or any harmful pathogen that has been entered in our body.
• In Ayurveda we correlate this with “VYADHI KSHMATAV” (disease fighting power. “Oja” (immunity power) is considered to be the main reason to provide this vyadhi kshmatav to the body.

As per ayurveda 0ja (immunity power) is defined as-

• It is a red or yellow color fluid in appearance present inside our heart, when there is loss of this substance in our body then the functioning of our body also gets disturbed & will ultimately lead to the mere death of a person.
• Ingredients of SANSHAMANI VATI: It includes the standardized extract of guduchi.

General Description Of Guduchi

It is a long herb (creeper) climb over the trees for support. Its stem is covered with a slimy layer and can be peeled off very easily. It has the characteristic appearance of chakra (round) over its internal surface. It is found all over India mainly in the area of northern and eastern parts of the country.

• Hindi Name: Giloy
• Latin Name: Tinospora cordifolia
• Sanskrit Names:
  • Guduchi (one which protect our body from ailments)
  • Amruta (works like amrit [holy fluid] for us)
  • Chakra Lakshanika (appearance of peculiar circular shapes over its internal structure)
  • Javarnashi (aid in fever)

It is considered as a best immunity boosting herb as it posses various herbal properties such as:

• Vaya Sthapana - Means age sustaining herb, helps in attaining good health for a longer duration.
• Daha Parashaman - Means help in reducing daha (burning sensation). As it has tikta (bitter) and kashay (astringent) taste it helps in reducing pitta dosha value, the main root cause of burning sensation.
• Trushna Nigrhan - Works as a good anti dypsic herb assist in relieving the polydipsia (excessive thirst) problem.
• Stanya Shodhan - Means galacto-depurant herb, as it helps in clearing out impurities from the breast milk in lactating mothers.
• Trupti Ghana- Anti-saturative herb helps in providing a feeling of trupti (satisfaction) to our body.

Medicinal Properties Of Guduchi

• It is a tridosha shamak (aid in balancing all the three main energies of our body i.e, vata, pitta and kapha) and pittasarak in action (releases the pitta dosha related impurities outside from the body).
• Contains natural antiseptic and analgesics properties so assist very efficiently in healing the wound.
• It is a very good cardiotonic herb so assist in managing various cardiovascular systems related ailments very efficiently.
• Known worldwide for its good restorative characteristic and have balya (increase strength of our body) and rasayana property (rejuvenating herb).

Uses Of Sanshamani Vati

Along with great immunity boosting property it also possesses other herbal uses, they are as follow:

• Useful in thirst, vomiting, abdominal pain and loss of appetite like illnesses.
• It works really well in various types of javar (fevers) due to the presence of ‘pitta sarak’ property which releases out vitiated pitta dosha from the body. List of some fever are as follow:
  • Visham javar (malaria)
  • Manthar javar (typhoid)
  • Dandak javar (dengue fever)
  • Shavasanak javar (pneumonia)
  • Shaleshmik javar (influenza)
  • Sandhik javar (rheumatic fever)
  • Tivratam javar (hyperpyrexia)
  • Sheet purvak javar (fever with chills)
  • Karan mulik javar (mumps)

Due to the presence of anti-inflammatory action, uses in various disorders such as:

• Rheumatoid Arthritis - as in this there is formation of inflammatory response in the body due to the presence of ‘ama’ (undigested food) in the synovial fluid of the joints.
• Osteoarthritis - the word ‘itis’ means inflammation and osteoarthritis means formation of inflammatory response in the large joints of your body.

As a result of ‘madhur vipak’ and tikta (bitter) rasa (taste) it helps in normalizing pitta dosha values so aid in anaemia (pandu as per ayurveda) as it is considered as a pittaj vyadhi.

Contain hypoglycemic property so used preferably in patients of diabetes mellitus as it helps in reducing the increased blood glucose level within the body.

Method To Prepare Sanshamani Vati

Collect fresh guduchi plants and then make a coarse powder of it by crushing it properly. Then add them into water and boil it until its quantity reduces to half. Filter it with the help of a strainer and leave the residue. Let it get cool for some time and then make proper pills in the form of tablets from this.

Dosage: 250 to 500 mg twice daily with lukewarm water after meals.

CONCLUSION

Now we can conclude that in the present era of pandemic it is very important for each and every individual to have good immunity power. Sanshamani vati is a very good herbal formulation to achieve this goal. In case it is not available, you can buy a giloy capsule and giloy satva of planet ayurveda. They work as a very good substitute for this. You can buy them from planet ayurveda online store or can also consult expert doctors of Planet Ayurveda.