Ashwagandha

Common Name - WITHANIA, WINTER CHERRY, INDIAN WINTER CHERRY, INDIAN GINSENG, ASHWAGANDHA

What is Ashwagandha?

Ashwagandha (Withania Somnifera) is an herb that improves the body’s ability to maintain physical effort and helps the body adapt to various types of stress. Ashwagandha has been used to treat conditions such as fatigue, chronic disease, impotence, and waning memory.

Ashwagandha is a beautiful delicate plant native to India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Defined by deep green leaves, branched limbs, and topped by seeded yellow flowers. Ashwagandha is a stunning in appearance and of vital importance in Ayurveda or Indian Medicine. Withania Somnifera has a long history, about 4000 years, as a holistic herb used to treat a variety of ailments.

Health Benefits of Ashwagandha

• It works as anti-inflammatory substance therefore helps in reducing swellings and restoring blood supply.
• It relieves stress due to presence of vata suppressant properties which helps in nurturing nervous system.
• It helps in promoting calmness and mental satisfaction in mind due to its good penetrating powers, which helps to counter negative adaptogens.
• It has an excellent healing properties therefore has great effects in healing wounds and injuries.
• It helps in relieving from the feel of numbness and burning sensation in extremities.
• It helps in providing nourishment to the brain for its better function and greater ability to work.
• It improves mental ability, helps in gaining retaining power and improves mental concentration.
• Ashwagandha revitalizes body and decreases untimely fatigue caused due weak body strength accumulation of negative energies in the body.
• It works as a rasayan i.e. a substance that helps in preventing early aging and rejuvenates whole body to provide youth.
• It works as powerful immune booster that helps in fighting any foreign invasion in the body.
• It is a powerful aphrodisiac thereby helps in enhancing the sexual powers and long lasting endurance.
• It also helps in increasing sperm count and also the quality of sperms.
• It gives good results in leucorrhoea, as it possesses the properties that suppress kapha.
• It is also useful in upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) and in asthmatic conditions.
• Ashwagandha relieves pressure and hypertension.
• Ashvagandha is a well-built rejuvenative.



Things to remember:

* If congested, do not take.
* Do not use if pregnant, breast feeding, complications are unknown.
* Talk to a doctor before using as adjunct treatment for AIDS, and cancer.