Chavikasavam

Kottakkal Ayurveda Chavikasavam

Kottakkal Ayurveda Chavikasavam

Description Of Kottakkal Ayurveda Chavikasavam: 

• Chavikasavam is an Ayurvedic medicine used mainly in abdominal and urinary tract disorders. It is a liquid medicine having self generated alcohol. It contains 5 – 10 % of self generated alcohol.This self generated alcohol and the water present in the product acts as a media to deliver water and alcohol soluble the active herbal components to the body.

Chavikasavam uses: 

• It is used in conditions
• Sarva Gulma Vikara – abdominal tumours and related diseases.
• Prameha – urinary tract disorders
• Pratishyaya – allergic rhinitis, Upper respiratory tract infection
• Kshaya – tuberculosis, chronic respiratory diseases
• Kasa – cough, cold
• Ashtila
• Vatashonita – gout
• Udara, Antravruddhi – ascites, abdominal distension and hernia.
• Useful in dyspepsia and anemia.

Dose: 

• 10 – 30 ml, once or twice a day, along with water, after food or as directed by Ayurvedic doctor.
• Dose for children below 5 years of age – 2 – 5 ml, once or twice day, mixed with equal amount of water, after food.
• Dose for children 5 – 12 years of age – 5 – 10 ml, once or twice a day, mixed with water.

Chavikasavam ingredients:

• Chavya – Piper cubeba – 2.4 kg
• Chitraka – Leadwort – Pumbago zeylanica – 1.2 kg
• 480 grams of
• Vashpika – Kala Jeera – Black cumin seed – Nigella sativa
• Pushkaramoola – Inula racemosa
• Shadgrantha – Acorus calamus
• Hapusha – Juniperus communis
• Shati – Hedychium spicatum
• Patolamoola – Pointed gourd – Trichosanthes cucumerina
• Triphala – Amla, Haritaki, Vibhitaki
• Yavani – Trachyspermum ammi
• Kutajatvak – Connessi bark – Holarrhena antidysenterica
• Vishala – Citrullus colocynthis
• Dhanyaka – Coriander
• Rasna – Pluchea lanceolata
• Danti – Baliospermum montanum
• 240 grams of
• Krumighna – Embelia ribes
• Musta – cyperus rotundus
• Manjishta – Rubia cordifolia
• Devadaru – Cedrus deodara
• Trikatu – Pepper, long pepper and ginger
• The above ingredients are added with 98.304 liters of water, boiled and reduced to 12.288 liters.
• Filtered.
• It is added with Jaggery – 14.4 kg
• Dhataki – Woodfordia fruiticosa – 960 grams
• Chaturjata – Cinnamon bark, leaves, Cardamom and Mesua ferrea – 384 grams
• Lavanga – clove, Trikatu (pepper, long pepper and ginger) – 48 grams each.
• The total ingredients are taken in a vessel smeared with ghee, and kept for fermenatation for one month.
• The actual dose told in the verse is 192 ml per day, in the morning.