Your Optimal Wellness Journey with Seasoned Ayurveda Practitioners
Wellness redefined with PranaAyu
Your Optimal Wellness Journey with Seasoned Ayurveda Practitioners
Wellness redefined with PranaAyu
PranaAyu: Your Ayurveda Wellness Guide
At Pranaayu, Our goal is to help you achieve your best possible health and well-being. To do this, we combine Ayurveda Knowledge to solve modern-healthcare challenges by developing personalized plans that adapt to your lifestyle.
Preventative Care Checklist
We offer Holistic Approach to Health and Disease Management:
Lifestyle Management
A seamless integration of Ayurveda with conventional medicine for individuals in managing emerging lifestyle diseases.
Chronic Disease Management
Conditions such as diabetes, obesity, thyroid dysfunction, hypertension, and cancer.
Psoriasis and Dermatological Concerns
Explore natural Ayurvedic approaches for managing psoriasis and achieving healthy skin.
Cosmeceutical Applications
Discover the power of Ayurvedic herbs and formulations for holistic beauty solutions.
Detox Consultancy
We provides consultations on Ayurveda detox methods for promoting health and managing existing health conditions.
R&D Consultation:
Project Consultancy (Experimental & Clinical)
Project Consultancy (Experimental & Clinical)
Project Consultancy (Experimental & Clinical)
This service offers expert guidance and support for researchers and clinicians conducting studies on Ayurvedic interventions. The team assists with project design, data analysis, and manuscript preparation.
Clinical Trial & Safety Assessment
Project Consultancy (Experimental & Clinical)
Project Consultancy (Experimental & Clinical)
We guide you through the clinical trial process, ensuring your formulation adheres to the highest safety and efficacy standards.
Formulation Design & Optimization
Project Consultancy (Experimental & Clinical)
Formulation Design & Optimization
Our team of experienced Ayurvedic practitioners and formulation scientists synergistically create potent herbal blends, meticulously considering dosage, ingredient ratios, and potential interactions.
Publications
HPTLC PROFILING OF USEFUL PARTS OF FIFTEEN PLANTS IN AYURVEDA WITH COLD POTENCY
International Journal of Research in Ayurveda and Pharmacy 8(2):2017-2043
Any drug to act as a medicine essentially should be potent. Potency is an expression of the activity of a drug in terms of the concentration or amount of the drug required to produce a defined effect, whereas clinical efficacy judges the therapeutic effectiveness of the drug. Potency is a good preclinical marker of the therapeutic potential of a drug. Ayurveda mentions a term 'Veerya' in context of modus operandi of a drug which indicates the 'potency of the drug'. Dual potency either as cold or hot is also the contributory theory of Ayurveda. Possibility to identity the nature of potency through current sophisticated tools is interrogated in the present communication. The paper focuses on HPTLC finger print profile of useful parts of 15 medicinal plants possessing Sheeta Veerya (cold potency) according to Ayurveda. For ethanol extract of randomly selected 15 plants of cold potency, a plate was developed in mobile phase of Toluene: Ethyl acetate: (8:2), scanned under UV at 254 nm, 366 nm, and derivatized after dipping in vanillin-sulphuric acid. Rf value, colour of spots and densitometric scan were recorded. 15 test samples followed a typical HPTLC fingerprint pattern on densitometric scanning at different wavelengths, which was further analyzed based on principles of Dravyaguna including pancha-mahabhoota principle to rationalize specificity of Rf value, and found relevant. The experiment is an evidence to authenticate the concept of 'Cold Potency' delineated in Ayurveda facilitating the global acceptance of its principles.
ACCREDITATION OF CONCEPTS OF RASA (NUTRITION) AND VEERYA (POTENCY) AS FOOD AND MEDICINE DETERMINANTS
International Journal of Research in Ayurveda and Pharmacy 7(6):14-18
Food is the necessity of life.People are concerned with food so far as it relieves their hunger or satisfies their appetite and not with whether it supplies their body with all components of good nutrition. Once inside the alimentary tract, the appeal for different types, forms,textures, flavors of food is no longer relevant because the process of digestion reduce them all to same common denominators in the size and form capable of absorption and transportation to individual cells, thud providing nutrition. Medicine too is conditioned necessity of life. Food and medicine consumed according to the needs of the body are of paramount essentials to sustain the life,. Though they share many common parameters, they definitely have individuality. The present communication uplifts the specificity of concept of rasa and veerya and their relation to food and medicine respectively.It accepts the accreditation of Chakrapani's quote' veerya pradhanum aushadhi dravyam, tatha rasa pradhanum aahara dravyam cha||which determinates concept of dravya as food determinant and veerya as medicine determinant.
Review on Concept of Potency (Veerya) and its diversity in Ayurveda
The present communication details the concept of the Potency in Ayurveda. Potency certifies the applicability of the drug to be used in various conditions of the body both in healthy and unhealthy status. Any drug to act as a medicine essentially should be potent. Potency is an expression of the activity of a drug in terms of the concentration or amount of the drug required to produce a defined effect, whereas clinical efficacy judges the therapeutic effectiveness of the drug. Potency is a good preclinical marker of the therapeutic potential of a drug. Ayurveda mentions a term „Veerya‟ in context of modus operandi of a drug which indicates the „Potency of the drug‟. The reviewestablishes that the concept of veerya(potency) in Ayurveda is not just limited to indicate the strength of the drug. The variants in veeryanamely mrudu(slow/dull)teekshna(quick/sharp),guru(heavy),laghu(light),snigdha(unctuous),ruksha(dry), Ushna(hot) ,sheeta(cold) making it as octa potency(ashtaveerya) or focusing only on ushna (hot) and sheeta(cold) making it as the dual potency (dwividhaveerya)or even in some contexts considering it as 15 types as per AcharyaNimi or even widening the concept of veerya(potency) by viewing it responsible for the 19 karma(pharmacological activities) as per Sushrutaopens the diversity or multiplicity in the drug action.
CHAMPAKA – AN AROMATIC BOON
Chamapaka is one of the important drug from Pushpa varga of Bhavaprakasha nighantu, known as Atigandha. M. champaca belonging to family Magnoliaceae is an evergreen tree mainly cultivated in Indian gardens and near temples for its fragrant flowers and handsome foliage. Its highly distributed in eastern Sub-Himalayan tract, West Bengal, Mayanmar and South India in addition to China. It is noted for perfumery and envisaged as ‘Joy perfume tree’. ‘Joy’ the second bestselling perfume in the world is derived in part from the essential oil of champaca flowers. Champaka finds its utility in ethnomedicine like bark is diuretic, febrifuge and flowers, fruits are anti-spasmodic, stomachic and also in commercial industries. Flowers are the source of Champa oil, used in perfumery, in preparation of attars and perfumed hair oils. Current review article encompasses different views in Ayurveda literature and botanical description, cultivation, powder microscopy and extraction method.
KEYWORDS: Champaka, Cultivation, Extraction, Economical importance, Aroma therapy
LAKSHA: A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
The base for Ayurvedic treatment is the quality of chikitsa chatushpada. Dravya is second among chikitsa chatushpada and the qualities it should possess are bahukalpa, bahuguna, sampanna and yogyata. Sampanna also includes genuinity and purity of dravya. The practice of adulteration has an influence on the therapeutic potency of the drug. Hence it is important to know the quality of the drugs that are used in herbal formulations. Lac is a drug which has diversified uses in medicaments as well as in commercial industries. Due to high demand and organic nature, lac can be easily adulterated. Colophony is commonly used as adulterant. Sometimes, Aleuritic acid, tannins etc are mixed with organic material to bring appearance like lac. In this article an attempt is made to review about Laksha (Laccifer lacca) throwing light on classical description as well as its life cycle, microscopic evaluation including Substitutes and Adulterants. Thus this review comprises detailed description about Laksha thereby highlights elaborate identification techniques which is very much required for Standardization. KEYWORDS: Laksha, Animal resin, Standardization, Aleurtic acid, identification.
DATABASE STUDY OF KANCHANARA (Bauhinia Variegata Linn ) WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CONTROVERSIAL ASPE
Kanchanara is known for its glory of scented and aesthetic flowers and also used as a food ingredient in Indian cuisine. Though different species of Bauhinia are known and used as Kanchanara but in specific Kanchanara is botanically identified as Bauhinia variegata. It is a moderate sized deciduous tree with greyish coloured stem found in sub Himalayan tract from the Indus eastwards and throughout the forests of India and Burma. The Flower and Bark of Kanchanara are used as medicine. The drug has been described as Grahi, Krimighna, Kushtaghna, Gandamalanashaka, Vranaropaka, Mehaghna and Raktapittashamak..Though the drug is mainly used in the name of Kanchanara, there is no usage of this term in the Samhitas, instead terms like Kovidara and Karbudara are used, in later periods of Nighantus the word Kanchanara was thrown light upon. Hence it is considered as a controversial drug. This review paper gives details about the medicinal plant Kanchanaraits Ayurvedic literature review, Pharmacognosy and Controversy. KEYWORDS: Kanchanara, Bauhinia variegata, Kovidara,Controversy
Ashoka [Saraca Asoca (Roxb.) Willd.] : A Salubrious Plant
Over the centuries, plants have been known to be a potential source of therapeutics. A comprehensive review of medicinal plants and its diversified action in mitigating the diseases is essential to be documented for serving mankind. Saraca asoca (Roxb.) willd. Belonging to the family Caesalpinioideae is a rain-forest tree, prized for its beautiful foliage and fragrant flowers. It’s found wild along streams and in the shades of evergreen forests. All most all parts of the plant are considered as pharmacologically important especially bark and flower. Bark is generally adulterated part of the plant with the bark of other plants like Polyalthia longifolia, Bauhinia variegata and Shorea robusta. It mainly contains tannin and catechin in substantial amount and widely used as uterine tonic, Antimenorrhagia, Analgesic, Anti-pyretic, Anthelmintic, Dermatoprotective and anti-diabetic. The current article highlights about review of Ashoka and its microscopical features.
PHYTO-PHARMACOGNOSTIC AND PHARMACO-THERAPEUTICAL REVIEW ON JAPA (HIBISCUS ROSA-SINENSIS)
International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical and Nano Sciences
The plant Japa botanically identified as Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Linn. Of the family malvaceae.is a glabrous shrub widely cultivated in the tropics as an ornamental plant and has several forms with varying colors of flowers. In medicine, however, the red flowered variety is preferred. In this article an attempt has been made to review on Japa from different classical texts. The parts used are Flowers, leaves and root and it is very effective in indraluptanashana (alopecia areata), garbhanirodhaka (anti-implantation), Pramehaghna (anti-diabetic), jvara (fever) etc. and many of the formulations like japataila, Chemparuthyadikeratailam, Vidangadi yoga etc. contains it as a one of the ingredient.
KEYWORDS Japa, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Keshya and Ayurveda.
REVIEW ON PARASITISM OF CUSCUTA REFLEXA ROXB. - A PLANT SOURCE FOR AKASHAVALLI
Parasitism is an association of two organisms of same or different species, in which one lives at the cost of others. According to Elton, the union of parasite and host is usually an elaborate compromise between extracting sufficient nourishment to maintain and propagate itself and not impairing too much the vitality of its host which is providing it with a home and free ride. It is estimated that nearly 50% of the life forms on this planet are parasites. About 4,500 species of parasitic plant in approximately 20 families of flowering plants are known. Parasitic flowering plants exploit other flowering plants for water and nutrients by specialized structures called haustoria which are the active intrusive organ, which penetrates host tissue to establish contact with the conductive tissue of the host. Akashavalli is one such drug explained in Nighantu’s with synonyms like Asparsha, swarnalatha and Nirmula etc are suggestive of its parasitic nature. The plant Hemiparasite Cassytha filiformis is used as a substitute for Cuscuta reflexa Roxb. The stem parasite belonging to Convulvulaceae family proven for its various pharmacological activities. This review article is an attempt to understand parasitism with special reference to Cuscuta reflexa Roxb, host range and major steps involved to control the parasite growth on host plants to avoid the complete damage. KEYWORDS: Haustoria, Akashavalli, Cuscuta reflexa Roxb, parasitism, Host range
PHYTO-PHARMACOGNOSTIC AND PHARMACO-THERAPEUTIC REVIEW OF KAPIKACCHU(MUCUNA PRURIENS)
Kapikacchu commonly known as Magic Valvet Bean is a part of traditional medicine right from the Vedic era. It is botanically identified as Mucuna pruriens Linn. It is a herbaceous twinner and belongs to papilionaceae family. The useful parts are seeds, pod hair, leaves, flower and root. The seeds are bestowed with Vrishya (aphrodisiac), balya, rasayana and vata hara properties. The seeds are rich in L-dopa and is extensively used for parkinsons. This article has highlighted the references of kapikacchu from Vedas, Samhita, Nighantu , Modern texts and Researches. This review sums up the synonyms, types, properties, uses, cultivation, propagation, pharmaco-therapeutics of kapikacchu.
KEYWORDS: Kapikacchu, Balya, vata hara, L-dopa.
SINGLE DRUG THERAPY IN ARDHAVABHEDAKA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO MIGRAINE – A REVIEW
Ardhavabhedaka told in Ayurveda can be co-related with the Migraine headache. According to WHO, headache disorders are the most common disorders of the nervous system. It has been estimated that almost half of the adult population have had a headache at least once within a year. Among them 30% or more is Migraine. Due to its high incidence and severity it needs a better management. Conventional methods used in migraine are symptomatic and have some limitations. Ekamoolika prayoga (Single drug therapy) is a simple, economical and effective method of treatment. Single drug therapy told for Ardhavabhedaka in Ayurveda has many such drugs like Chakramarda (Cassia tora),Shirisha, (Albezia lebeck), Vacha ( Acorus calamus), Brahmi (Bacopa moneri), Pippali (Piper longum), Moolaka(Raphanus sativa) etc.These drugs are administered as Nasya (Nasal route of administration), to provide better absorption and quick results.The Drugs having Katu – Tikta pradhana Rasa, Laghu – Rooksha – Teekshna guna, and Kapha- Vatahara or Tridoshahara quality are useful in Ardhavabhedaka.
Keywords: Ardhavabhedaka, Migraine, Ekamoolikaprayoga, Nasya
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