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Baheda As Medicine

Bibhitaki is an Ayurvedic herb that is known to protect against disease. It has drying, astringent, and strengthening properties that benefit the lungs, intestines, and urinary system. It is classified as having an astringent and sweet taste, heating energy, and sweet post-digestive effect. Bibhitaki balances all three doshas but can aggravate vata in excess. It has expectorant, bronchodilating, astringent, laxative, and other medicinal properties. Bibhitaki is used to treat asthma, bronchitis, cough, laryngitis, diarrhea, intestinal inflammation, parasites, bladder stones, and insomnia.

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Baheda As Medicine

Bibhitaki is an Ayurvedic herb that is known to protect against disease. It has drying, astringent, and strengthening properties that benefit the lungs, intestines, and urinary system. It is classified as having an astringent and sweet taste, heating energy, and sweet post-digestive effect. Bibhitaki balances all three doshas but can aggravate vata in excess. It has expectorant, bronchodilating, astringent, laxative, and other medicinal properties. Bibhitaki is used to treat asthma, bronchitis, cough, laryngitis, diarrhea, intestinal inflammation, parasites, bladder stones, and insomnia.

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Baheda in Ayurveda Bibhitaki is the one who keeps you away from disease as it is literally fearless of all diseases.

This small, dry fruit has a specific drying, astringing and strengthening action on the mucous membranes throughout the body, especially in the lungs, intestines and urinary system. ENERGETICS Rasa (taste) Astringent, sweet Vi-rya (energy) Heating Vipa-ka (post-digestive effect) Sweet Gun.a (quality) Dry, light Dos.a effect VPK=, balances all three dosas; aggravates vata in excess Dha-tu (tissue) Plasma, muscle, bone, nerve Srotas (channel) Digestive, respiratory, nervous, excretory CONSTITUENTS Triterpenoids Cardiac glycoside saponins, bellericoside, bellericanin Sterols -sitosterol Tannin Gallic acid, ellagic acid AYURVEDIC ACTION Rasa-yana Rejuvenative to lungs Caks.us.ya Benefits the eyes Kesya Good for the hair Ka-n. t. hya Improves the quality of the throat S vasakasaghna Benefits breathing problems Virecanopaghna Aids purgation (unripe fruit) Puri-s. asam. grahan. i-ya Stool binding (ripe fruit) Mu-travirecana Diuretic Asmarihara Lithagogue S rotahara Alleviates oedema and swellings Madaka-ri Intoxicating (stone) BIOMEDICAL ACTION Expectorant, bronchodilator, astringent, laxative, anthelmintic, lithotropic, tonic INDICATIONS Lungs Asthma, bronchitis, cough, laryngitis with high avalambaka kapha, obstructing the flow of

prana in the lungs. Where there is copious, white or clear phlegm, bibhitaki can help to clear and dry this congestion (Bhavaprakasa). Also used to soothe a sore throat when mixed with honey and also used as a gargle. Head It has a particular affinity for the upper body and head. It clears congestion from the eyes, ears, nose and throat. Also indicated for helping to maintain hair growth. Digestion Diarrhoea, colitis, Crohn s disease, intestinal inflammation and parasites with pitta kapha problems. It has a dual action of being both astringent and laxative that helps to increase peristalsis as well as strengthen the mucous membranes of the colon. The unripe fruits have a stronger laxative action and the ripe fruits are more astringent (Bhavaprakasa). Urine Bladder stones, cloudy urine due to kapha urinary aggravation with obstructions in the medas-dhatu. It has the ability to clear all kapha accumulations. Nerves Insomnia; its astringent nature can hold rising vata down in the lower abdomen and prevent it from irritating the sensitive nerves of the head. It also nourishes majja dhatu, which helps to prevent frazzled nerves. Heart Its cardiac glycoside content and ability to reduce stagnant kapha indicates its use for cardiac congestion and insufficiency. COMBINATIONS * Haritaki, amalaki to make triphala; a rejuvenative to the whole GIT. * Pippali, black pepper for lungs and high kapha. * Haritaki, ginger, vasa, anthrapachaka for asthma and coughs. BIBHITAKI Common name Beleric myrobalan (E), Baheda (H) Sanskrit Bibhi-taki Latin Terminali a belerica Fructus (Combretaceae) Chapter 6 PLANT PROFILES * Gokshura, coriander, bhumiamalaki, manjishtha for urinary stones and infections. * Brahmi, jatamansi, tagara for

insomnia. CONTRAINDICATIONS High vata. Dry symptoms in the lungs, skin, bowels. SAFETY No drug herb interactions are known DOSAGE 250mg 3g per day or 3 15ml of a 1:3 @ 25% tincture.

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