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Insight of sandra and drava guna

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Journal name: Journal of Ayurveda and Holistic Medicine
Original article title: Insight of sandra and drava guna
The Journal of Ayurveda and Holistic Medicine (JAHM) promotes Ayurvedic scientific research by offering a platform for in-depth exploration and integration of its principles into modern healthcare. JAHM is owned and published by Atreya Ayurveda Publications. Atreya Ayurveda Publications engaged in scientific publications on Ayurveda in the form of print books and ebooks since 2007.

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Year: 2016 | Doi: 10.70066/jahm.v4i4.317

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Every dravya (substance) has some basic attributes these are called as guna(attributes). The efficacy of
ahara(diet) or aoushada(medicine) can be understood with the help of attribute only. Gurvadi(heavy etc)
attribute are known as shareerika or karmanya guna (attribute of body or action) because these are helpful in maintenance of dhatu(tissue), and also play major role in disease production as �hetu�(causes) of the diseases, in diagnosis as lakshana(signs/symptoms) and to maintain health as ‘chikitsa� (therapeutic measures/drugs).
Among vimshati(twenty) attributes sandra (dense) and drava (liquid) is pair of attributes, opposite qualities to each other. These two attributes are having different bhouthika (physical) composition and their action on the body is opposite to one another. Sometimes both the attributes co-exist in a substance to perform certain actions in the body. Here effort has made to understand sandra and drava attribute as causes and their significance in management.

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