Kanakasavam is an Ayurvedic medicine for cough, breathing disorders, and diseases of respiratory system. It is also useful in chronic fever and compromised immunity.
Benefits of Kanakasavam
It is beneficial in all the disorders of respiratory tract like acute & chronic cough, breathing disorders, asthma, bronchitis, COPD etc. This combination is advised to be taken in wounds and bruises of chest. It works as an expectorant and improves the lung capacity.
It helps to reduce recurrent chest infections in tuberculosis. It can be used in chronic diseases with compromised immunity like AIDS. It helps to correct malabsorption and deficiency disorders.
It is beneficial in chronic and recurrent fevers. It increases digestive power and thereby immunity.
Itnhelps in bleeding disorders and wounds & bruises of chest.
Indications of Kanakasavam
Nihanti nikhilaan Swaasa- Breathing difficulties
Kaasa – Cough
Yakshma – Tuberculosis
Kshataksheena – Emaciation and fatigue due to trauma
Jeernajwara – Chronic & recurrent fever
Raktapitta – Bleeding disorders
Ura:kshata – Wounded chest
Ingredients of Kanakasavam
| Thorn apple/Jimson weed | Kanaka | Datura stramonium L. |
A famous anti-asthmatic herb. It is poisonous and is used after proper detoxification. It is used in the treatment of ulcers, wounds, inflammation, rheumatism & gout, sciatica, bruises & swelling, fever, asthma & bronchitis, and toothache.
| Adathoda, Malabar nut | Vrishamoolatwak
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Justicia adathoda L.
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It is an expectorant and is mostly used in respiratory conditions. It helps in treatment of skin diseases. It is also used in jaundice, fevers, headache and urinary infections.
| Liquorice | Madhuka/ Yashtyahwa
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Glycyrrhiza glabra L. |
It has anti-bacterial, anti-oxidant, anti-malarial, anti-spasmodic, anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcer, anti-viral, anti-fungal, anti-hyperglycaemic and hepato-protective properties.
| Long pepper | Pippali/Magadhi | Piper longum |
It has carminative action and maybe used as appetizer. The fruit and root of Pippali are used in the form of powder to treat fever, diarrhoea, piles, cough, hiccough, asthma, hoarseness of voice, flatulence, colic, vomiting, acid gastritis, oedema, diseases of mouth, eye diseases, diseases of semen, diseases of women, jaundice, and earache.
Pippali mixed with honey alleviates cough, dyspnoea, fever splenomegaly, and hiccough.
| Yellow-berried nightshade | Vyaghri | Solanum xanthocarpum |
It has anti-oxidant and anti-cancer activities. It possesses anti-asthmatic, hypoglycaemic, hepatoprotective, anti-bacterial and insect repellent properties.
| Indian rose chest nut/Ceylon ironwood/cobra’s saffron | Nagakesara | Mesua ferrea L. |
It clears kapha, it is beneficial in urinary tract infection, poisoning, rheumatoid arthritis, pruritus, and oedema. It is beneficial in the treatment of fever, excessive thirst, sweating, vomiting & nausea, bad body odour, skin diseases, herpes etc. It is useful in some types of headache.
| Dried ginger | Viswabheshaja
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Zingiber officinalis |
It is unctuous and hot in potency with pungent taste but becomes sweet after digestion. It is an aphrodisiac and balances Vata and Kapha.
It improves ability to taste and promotes digestion. Relieves cough cold and other respiratory problems. It is not a laxative, rather causes constipation.
| Blue-flowered Glory Tree | Bharngi
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Clerodendrum serratum (L.) MOON |
The plant is considered as having antitoxic and antiseptic properties. Juice of leaves is used with ghee as an application in skin conditions like herpetic eruptions and pemphigus. It is given in fever and is useful in sinusitis. The drug is also useful as an expectorant in respiratory diseases like asthma and cough.
| Indian silver fir | Taleesapatra | Abies webbiana LINDL. |
It has anti-bacterial, mast cell stabilising, anxiolytic, anti-tumour, anti-inflammatory, anti-tussive, and CNS depressant properties.
| Fire flame bush | Dhaataki | Woodfordia fruiticosa Kurtz |
It is an anthelmintic, in dysentery, leprosy, blood diseases, leucorrhoea, and menorrhagia.
| Black grapes | Mridweeka/Draksha | Vitis vinifera L. |
Grapes are a nourishing and slightly laxative fruit that can support the body through illness, especially of the gastro-intestinal tract and liver. Because the nutrient content of grapes is close to that of blood plasma, grape fasts are recommended for detoxification. The fresh fruit is antilithic, constructive, cooling, diuretic and strengthening. The fruit is also helpful in the treatment of varicose veins, haemorrhoids and capillary fragility. The dried fruit is demulcent, cooling, mildly expectorant, laxative and stomachic. It has a slight effect in easing coughs. It is used as a remedy for skin diseases and in diseases of the eyes.
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Sugar
Honey
Details of the manufacturing
As already discussed, Kanakasavam has 11 herbal ingredients, honey and sugar.
All herbal ingredients should be washed well and dried up in shade.
Take
Kanaka – 4 Pala
Vrishampoolatwak- 4 Pala
Madhuka
Magadhi
Vyaghri 2 Pala in total (each herb in equal quantity)
Kesaram
Viswabheshaja
Bharngi
Taleesapatra
Dhaataki – 1 Prastha
Draksha – 20 Pala
in an earthen pot. Pour 2 drona (32 Prastha) of clear water into it.
Add
Sugar – 1 Tulam
Honey – ½ Tulam
It should be transferred into an earthen pot coated inside with ghee. Mix all the ingredients well. Cover it with a clean white cloth and keep it closed and airtight. Keep it for 30 days in a dark place with low temperature. After 30 days, open it and filter through a clean white cloth. Keep it in an airtight glass bottle. Asavam can be used for a longer period of time without any preservatives.
Dosha Dooshya Predominance with roga margas.
Kanakasavam is Kapha-Pittahara and anulomana.
It acts on aabhyantara rogamarga
Dosage and Usage of Kanakasavam
Dosage: 25-30 ml after food
Usage:
Arishtam is advised to be taken after food, once the ingested food and arishtam will digest together.
It is taken two times or three times a day immediately after food.
Exercises and Yoga.
As Kanakasavam targets mainly respiratory system, following stretching exercises and specific yoga asanas like pavanamuktasana, vajrasana, bhujangasana etc for lower back and abdomen recommended.
Regular exercise helps improve bioavailability of the medicine and food ingested and leads to positive health.
Yoga can maintain harmony within and with surroundings.
Pavanamuktasana
Vajrasana
Bhujangasana
Simple exercises for lungs and heart health
Recommended diet and behaviour
Diet:
- To be avoided
Heavy meals and difficult to digest foods – cause indigestion.
junk foods- cause disturbance in digestion and reduces the bioavailability of the medicine
carbonated drinks – makes the stomach more acidic and disturbed digeastion
refrigerated and frozen foods – causes weak and sluggish digestion by weakening agni (digestive fire)
curd – causes vidaaha and thereby many other diseases
Milk and milk products – Cause indigestion, obstruction in channels, and respiratory diseases
- To be added
Light meals and easily digestible foods
Green gram, soups, buttermilk boiled with turmeric, ginger and curry leaves
freshly cooked and warm food processed with cumin seeds, ginger, black pepper, ajwain etc
Behaviour:
Take bath in the morning or evening.
Avoid head bath in the noon.
Avoid hot water for head bath.
Maintain personal hygiene.
Better to avoid exposure to excessive sunlight wind rain or dust.
Avoid lifting heavy weights and other vigorous physical activities.
Maintain a regular food and sleep schedule.
Avoid sitting continuously for a long time and avoid squatting.
Side effects and contraindications
No known side effects reported.
Diabetic people and people with gastric ulcer should not take arishta-asavas.
Classical references with image of the text.
BHAISHAJYARATNAVALI SWAASACHIKITHSAADHIKARA
Equivalent medicines.
Draksharishtam
Brands Available
AVS Kottakal
Vaidyaratnam oushadhasala
SNA oushadhasala
Research papers
Maricha
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28254575/
Pippali
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2639691/
Kantakari
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15551394/
Draksha
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27196869/
Vrisha
Asthma and respiratory diseases
http://www.florajournal.com/archives/2014/vol2issue1/PartA/23.1.pdf
Kanaka
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