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Aphrodisiacs of Bhavaprakasha Lexicon: A Review

Ritesh Kumar , Ritesh Kumar , Pramodkumar , Chougale Arun

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Indian Journal of Ancient Medicine and Yoga 7(1):p 29-31, January - March 2014. | DOI:

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Aphrodisiac is aspecialized branch considered to be one among 8 branches of Ayurveda gaining more popularity in present days. A huge information regarding various concepts of Aphrodisiacs & its utility was found well scattered in the Ayurvedic classics like Bruhatrayis, Laghutrayis, Rasa literatures. Bhavamisra was the author of Bhavaprakash nighantu (Lexicon) which is one of the Laghutrayis (Sharanghadara, Madhavanidana and Bhavaprakash). This text considered as karmapradhanagrantha (practical medicine) & drug index of Ayurveda. A variety of drugs with many actions obtained from different origins like herbal, minerals & animals for various sexual disorders have been mentioned in this text. Sexual disorders is one of the leading cause for more than 53 diseases and in India around 30 million people are suffering with sexual disorders. Individual habits with stressful life, wrong dietary habits, and sedentary life are the main cause of disease and no satisfactory treatment is available in conventional system. Hence there is need to explore alternative system of Indian medicines like Ayurveda for the benefits of sufferers.Thus present study was designed to screen the drugs with different vajikarana properties from bhavaprakasha which were well thought-out in the treatment of sexual disorders. Out of 426 drugs, 248 drugs were utilized in the management of various sexual disorders which includes herb, mineral as well as animal origin These screened drugs were the handy reference for the treatment of sexual disorders which provides great information for the researchers in the field.

 

Keywords: Ayurveda; Aphrodisiacs; klaibya; Sexual disorders; Vajikarana. 

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