Chyavanprash

Chyavanprash is an ancient formulation and product.{{cite book | vauthors=Gupta SK | title=Pharmacology and Therapeutics in the New Millennium | publisher=Springer Netherlands | year=2001 | isbn=978-0-7923-7059-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yrJ3M1KMv-AC&pg=PA332 | access-date=November 2, 2017 | page=332 | archive-date=November 4, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104063219/https://books.google.com/books?id=yrJ3M1KMv-AC&pg=PA332#v=onepage&q&f=false | url-status=live }} Various ancient Indian texts like Mahabharata, Puranas etc., relate that Ashvin twins, who are Vedic gods of medicine, first prepared this formulation for Chyavana Rishi at his Ashram on Dhosi Hill near Narnaul, Haryana, India, hence the name Chyavanprash.Panda, H; Handbook On Ayurvedic Medicines With Formulae, Processes And Their Uses, 2004, p10 {{ISBN|978-81-86623-63-3}} The first historically documented formula for chyavanprash appears in the Charaka Samhita, the ancient Ayurvedic treatiseBates, D, Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions Cambridge University Press 1995, p325 {{ISBN|978-0-521-49975-0}} from the early first millennium BCE.

Chyavanaprash tastes sweet and sour at the same time. The taste is dominated by the flavors of honey, ghee (clarified butter) and amla, and the smell by ghee and other spices including sandalwood, cinnamon and cardamom.

Chyavanaprash is usually consumed directly. It can also be consumed along with warm water.

The recipe of chyavanprash is mentioned in manuscripts written for ayurvedic method of treatment viz. Ashtangahridayam, Charakasamhita, Sangandharasamhita. The number of herbs used may vary from 25 to 80 but the main ingredient of all chyavanprash is amla.{{cite book| vauthors = Johnston R |title=The politics of healing : histories of alternative medicine in twentieth-century North America|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|year=2004|isbn=0-415-93338-2|page=226}} Other chief ingredients are:

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• Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera or Winter cherry)
• Shatavari (Asparagus racemosa)
• Amla
• Bamboo manna
• Blue Egyptian water lily (Makhana)
• Cardamom
• Chebulic myrobalan
• Chinese cinnamon
• Cinnamon bark
• Clove
• Indian rose chestnut
• Country mallow
• Feather foil plant (Phyllanthus niruri or Bhumiamalaki)
• Galls
• Ghee
• Giant potato (Ipomoea mauritiana or Kiribadu Ala)
• Giloy (Guduchi) (Tinospora cordifolia)
• Honey
• Indian kudzu
• Irish root
• Liquorice
• Long pepper (Piper longum)
• Malabar nut (Seed of Adhatoda vasica)
• Nut grass
• Potassium sorbate
• Raisins
• Round zedoary
• Sandalwood
• Sesame oil
• Spreading hogweed (Boerhavia diffusa)
• Sugar
• Tiger's claw or Ice plant (Erythrina variegata)
• Wild black gram
• Wild green gram

{{div col end}}All of the major brands of chyavanprash were determined to be safe with respect to heavy metal content as of 2011 by Consumer Voice.{{cite journal | vauthors = Sharma R, Martins N, Kuca K, Chaudhary A, Kabra A, Rao MM, Prajapati PK | title = Chyawanprash: A Traditional Indian Bioactive Health Supplement | journal = Biomolecules | volume = 9 | issue = 5 | pages = 161 | date = April 2019 | pmid = 31035513 | pmc = 6571565 | doi = 10.3390/biom9050161 | doi-access = free }}

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