Vasa — Medicinal Uses and benefits

Vasa represent a class of herbal drug with very strong conceptual or traditional base as well as a strong experimental base for its use.

 

Botanical Name – Adhathoda vasica
Family Name — Acantaceae

Common Name —

• English – Malabar nut; Vasaka
• Kannada – Adusoage
• Marathi – Adulsa
• Hindi – Adulsa

Medicinal Uses –

• In cough – Juice of Vasa is advised.
• In Malarial fever – Root bark of Vasa juice
• In ear infections – Powdered herb of this drug mixed with half teaspoon of sesame oil
• In rheumatic pain – Boiled leaves are used.
• In urinary tract infections – Take the leaves of Vasa and boil it and drink the mixture.
• In rheumatoid Arthritis – Leaves are made into a paste and applied.

How to consume the herb –-

• Leaf Juice – 10 -20ml
• Root decoction – 40 –80ml
• Flower Juice – 10 –20ml
• Leaf dry powder – 1 –3 grams, once or twice a day.
• Putapaka Swarasa – 24 – 48ml, once or twice a day

 

The medicines which have Vasa as their ingredients –

• Vasavaleha
• Vasa Ghrita