charaksamhita, kalpna sthana adhyaya 2 jimutaka kalpa adhyaya medicinal prepration of luffa echinata

1. CHARAKA SAMHITA-KALPA STHAN CHAPTER 2
JIMUTAKA
KALPA ADHYAYA
Salina abdulmajid
manek ,
3rd profession student
of BAMS,

2. JIMUTAKA KALPA ADHYAYA
Pharmaceutical
preparations of Jimutaka

3. CONTENTS
• There re 39 recipes of jimutaka, as follows;
i. 6 recipes prepared by boiling milk with
jimutaka.
ii. 1 recipie prepared by soaking jimutaka in
alcohol.
iii. 12 recipies prepraed by boilingwith decoctions.
iv. 8 recipies in th from of pills.
v. 4 recipies to be used with juice of jivaka
vi. 1 recipies of medicatd ghee.

4. INTRODUCTION TO JIMUTAKA
Synonyms: Devadali,Garagari,Devatadaka
Botonical name: Luffa echinata Roxb.
Properties:
Rasa – Katu, Tikta
Guna – Laghu, Ruksha
Veerya – Ushna
Vipaka - Katu
Pharmacological actions – Tridoshahara, Vamaka
Indications – Jwara, Shwasa, Kasa, Hikka, Shotha, Kamala,
Pandu, Krimi
Therapeutic uses –
•Kamala (Jaundice)-Root
of Ankola or Arka or Jimuta pounded with rice water, if
used as snuff alleviates jaundice[8].
•Kushta (skin diseases) – devadali fruit is impregnated
with Snuhi latex for seven times and taken in the dose
of 125mg with milk keeping on salt-free diet[8].

5. • Visha(Poison) – Devadali fruit should be taken with curd
and the poison is vomited. This is an excellent remedy for
all types of rat bite[8].
• The fruits are used as a purgative and also given to
patients suffering from colic and cholera.[9]
• Part used – Fruit, Flowers
• Preparations & Dosage( For therapeutic purposes
other than emesis as mentioned in API) – Powder
-1-3 g
• Flowering & Fruiting: September - Decembe

6. QUALITIES
• जीमूतकं त्रिदोषघ्नं यथास्वौषधकल्पितम्|
प्रयोक्तव्यं ज्वरश्वासहिक्काद्येष्वामयेषु च||४||
• Jimutaka when administered with appropriate
drugs cures diseases caused by all the
three doshas. It is useful in fever, dyspnea,
hiccup and similar other disorders. [4]

7. PREPARTIONS

8. 1.) PREPARATIONs WITH MILK
MILK AND MILK PRODUCT PART OF JIMUTAKA
Milk Flowers
milky gruel freshly appeared fruits
milk cream hairy fruits
curd non hairy fruits
sour curd from milk boiled pale green fruit.
Milk (taken with, anupan) Powder of fully matured fruit
One suffering from ailments caused by vata and pitta should take
one shukti (20 gm)
यथोक्तगुणयुक्तानां…………… (04)
……………………………………………
………………… वातपित्ताहदितः पिबेत्(07)

9. 2.) preparation with alcohol
• आसुत्य च सुरामण्डे ………………..
………………… िाण्डुरोगे सयक्ष्मणण||(08)
• Powder of
fruit
Soaked with
• Sura-manda
• Part of
alcohol
Kept over
night • Stirred with
hand and
strained
Liquid
obtained
It can be taken in anorexia due to kapha, cough, anemia and wasting diseases,
bronchitis, tubercolosis.

10. 3.) preparation by boiling with
decocotion
Two or
three
fruits of
bristly
luffa
should be
squeezed
Guduchi Yashti Kovidara
Karbudara
Nipa
Vidula
Bimbi
Shanpushp
i
Sadapushp
i
Apamarga
NimbaKutaja

11. 4.) preparation used along with
decocotion.
powder of
Jimutaka may be
taken with
Aragwadha
Vrukshaka Swadukantaka
(Babbul or
Gokshura)
Patha
Patala
Gunja
Murva
Can be taken by patient suffering from
fever caused by aggraveted pitta and
kapha .

12. 5.) preparatio in from of pills
• Jimutaka phala churna + pippli phala churna
made into Vartti (caplets) by impregnating it
with a decoction of one of the
six Phaladi (Madana , jimutaka,ikshvaku,
dharmagava, vatasaka, krita,etc.) drugs and
taken with the above decoction.

13. 6.) prepration to be used with juices
• जीवकषिभके क्षूणां शतावयाि रसेन वा|
पित्तश्लेष्मज्वरे दद्याद्वातपित्तज्वरेथथवा||१२||
• the powder of Jimutaka should be administered
with the juice of one of the four drugs viz. Jivaka,
Rushabhaka,
Ikshu or
Shatavari.
Indicated In fever due to Pitta –and-kapha or Vata-
and-Pitta

14. 7.)prepration of medicated ghee
• तथा जीमूतकक्षीरात् समुत्िन्नं िचेद्ृततम्|
फलादीनां कषायेण श्रेष्ठं तद्वमनं मतम ्||१३||
• The ghee prepared (extracted directly or
processed according to the procedure of
snehakalpana) from the milk boiled with
Jimutaka should be cooked with decoction of
madanaphala etc. It is regarded as an
excellent recipe for emesis. [13]

15. • Tattva Vimarsha (Fundamental Principles)
• Jeemutak is used as emetic herb in vamana (therapeutic emesis).
• Vidhi Vimarsha (Applied Inferences)
• Emetics should be administered with vehicles depending on dosha. For example
in pitta dominant conditions drugs are administered with milk, draksha, amalaka,
parushaka, etc., honey and gomutra are employed in kapha dosha and
with sura (wine) and other fermented drinks, curd etc. in vata dosha. Gangadhara
described the use of jimutaka in kotha (urticaria) and he also commented that
Hikkadi includes Kasa. Chakrapani specifically indicates that diseases which are due
to urogatadosha should be considered under hikkadi.
• Chakrapani mentions the use of freshly appeared fruit in the preparation of milk
gruel. Arunadatta comments there are two varieties of Jimutaka fruits
viz Mridu and Kathina , based on their hairy and non hairy texture. (A.Hr..Ka.1/21
Arunadatta commentary). Fruits described as Haritapandu should be of moderate
growth and of texture that lies between hairy and non hairy ones.
• The recipe with Jimutaka as nasal drops in the management of Kamala is very
popular and has scientific validation. Its Emetic activity has also been revalidated.
Being tiskanavamaka it can be used in Nanatmaja Kapha Vikara. Though it
sometimes may create hematemesis.
• Researches

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