ROLE OF STANYAJANANA MAHAKASHYA FOR HEALTHY PROGENY IN AYURVEDA

Abstract

Ayurveda is the unique life science, elaborates the important principles related to human being right from birth to death is mentioned in olden Ayurveda Samhita (Classics). Ayurveda divided in eight branches in which Kaumarbhritya is one of the important branch. In Ayurveda Stanya(Breast milk) is the main source of nutrition for newborn baby. Progeny is said to be healthy when he or she received healthy nutrition. This start when the newborn baby feed on the stanya to get proper nutrition for fulfilling the purpose of further physical and mental growth showing good mile stone of progeny. Sometimes the same purpose is not achieved due to insufficient amount of ‘Stanya’ which not able to feed the baby according to their body’s need which can leads to improper growth of babies and children’s leads to diseases concern with ‘Stanyakshaya’. In ‘Shadvirechanshatashritiya Adhyaya’ of Charak samhita,there mentioned 50 groups of ‘Mahakashaya’ in which ‘Stanyajanana Mahakashya’ which included 10 drugs is important  by using which amount of  stanya can be increased. These drugs posseses   madhura rasa and as stanya is having madhura rasa, its amount increases based on ‘Samanya Siddhanta’ of Ayurveda. In present era it is observed that after giving birth to child some mothers does not have sufficient amount of stanya which can fulfill the babies milk requirement.So using this ‘Stanyajanana Mahakashya’ amount of stanya can be increased which is having a great role to built healthy progeny as children’s are the future of our  nations. Hence present Paper elaborate all these aspects of process and mode of action of the same in detail.

KEYWORDS: Samhita, Charak, Stanyajanan, mahakashya,Madhura.