Abstract

SHIMSHAPA(SHEESHAMA); AN AYURVEDIC REVIEW

Dr. Manish Pamnani*, Dr. Ashok Kumar Lakhran, Dr. A. Rama Murthy, Dr. Sarvesh Kumar Agarwal

ABSTRACT

Dravyaguna is a branch of Ayurveda which deals with the herbal drugs which are used in treatment, mitigation and prevention of disease. Now-a-days people are more conscious regarding their health; they don’t want to use chemical oriented or synthetic drugs. Their choice is to heal their problems with natural or herbal drugs. In Dravyaguna many of drugs are described for specific diseases. Out of these, a common but precious drug is there known as Shimshapa (Seeshama) Latin named as Dalbergia sissoo Roxb. of family Leguminosae. It is a well known Drug of India but most of people don’t know about its medicinal properties. To provide valuable information about its medicinal properties among people, so they can easily use this precious herb, this article is written.

Keywords: Dravyaguna, Ayurveda, Shimshapa (Sheeshama)