Kaivishaparihari Gulika – Ingredients, Uses, and Dosage
Kaivishaparihari Gulika is an ayurvedic medicinal preparation in the form of a pill/tablet. It is used in treating kaivisha (ingested poison – diseases caused by ingested poisonous substances through food and drinks).
Many people suffer from administered poison to food poison (gara visha) with the symptoms of loss of appetite, burning sensation in stomach, laziness, dullness, pallor, dropping limb, giddiness, emaciation, exhaustion, and lifelessness.
Once the poison enters the body no other medication or treatments will work until the poison is expelled out from the body. If it is not removed in time patients mostly suffer a slow death. Kaivishaparihari Gulika helps in treating this kind of poison.
Other Names : Kaivisha Samhari Gulika, Neelimooladi Gulika.
Ingredients of Kaivishaparihari Gulika
- Murva (Chenomorpha fragrans) – 0.020gms
- Amrita/Guduchi (Tinospora cordifolia) -0.020gms
- Nata/Jatamansi (Valeriana jatamansi) – 0.020gms
- Kana/Pippali (Piper longum) – 0.020gms
- Patola (Trihosanthes cucumerina) -0.020gms
- Chavya (Piper mullesua) – 0.020gms
- Chitraka (Plumbago zeylanica) – 0.020gms
- Vacha (Acorus calamus) – 0.020gms
- Musta (Cyperus rotundus) -0.020gms
- Vidanga (Embelia ribes) – 0.020gms
- Swarnamakshika (Chalcopyrite) – 0.040gms
- Swarna (purified Gold) – 0.010gms
Preparation of Kaivishaparihari Gulika
All the ingredients are taken in a specified quantity and powdered. Then pills are rolled out using vati preparing method.
Indication of Kaivishaparihari Gulika
- Kaivisha (ingested poison – diseases caused by ingested poisonous substances through food and drinks).
- Food Poison
Mode of use, Dosage, and Adjuvants
Kaivishaparihari Gulika is administered after Vamana (therapeutic vomiting) and Virechana (therapeutic purging). For Vamana, 24 gms of vacha (Acorus Calamus) is mixed with 384 ml of water and boiled and reduced to one-fourth quantity (96ml). To this decoction one Kaivishaparihari, Gulika is rubbed in and mixed on the first day. If Vomiting doesn’t happen then again next day one pill is mixed with double the quantity of the decoction that should be given.
For purging (Virechana) the decoction white-flowered aparajitha’s (clitoria ternatea) roots are taken 48gms along with 24 gms of raisin and 24 chebulic myrobalan without seeds added with 1536 ml of water and boiled. Once the water quantity is reduced to one-fourth quantity (384ml). Then the decoction is filtered and can be reduced again to one-fourth quantity. To this decoction, one pill is rubbed and administered for purgation.
The dose of the medication can be adjusted according to the strength of the patient. In children the dosage should be reduced according to the need, If Vamana and virechana bring on exhaustion the patient is advised to consume gruel in cows milk.
After Vamana and Virechana, one pill of Kaivishaparihari Gulika is consumed per day should be continued for 41 days.
weak poison Vamana and virechana may not be needed and the pill is given morning and evening rubbed in water, Tulasi swarasa (juice of Ocimum tenuiiflorum), Mahakalyanaka Ghrutam, Panchagavya ghrutam, or in cows ghee.
One should avoid sex, alcohol, and meat. Body and mind should be kept clean during this period.
One more variety of Kaivishaparihari Gulika by Sahasrayoga
Ingredients:
- Neeli (Indigofera tinctoria)
- Yasthimadhu (Glycyriza glabra)
- Chanadana (Santalum album)
- Rudraksha (Eleocarpus ganitrus)
- Pata (Cyclea pelteta)
- Kamala (Nelumbo nucifera), etc…
Indications :
- For all types of kaivisham
Dosage:
One tab thrice daily mixed with milk.
Reference:
- Yoga Grantha
- Sahasrayoga
Also, Read Dooshivishari Gulika,