Ingredients And Their Benefits

In Sanskrit Ashta means eight, Churna or Choornam means powder. So as the name indicates, Ashta Choornam is a combination of eight different ingredients. The ingredients and their benefits are as follow:

• Maricha (Black Pepper Fruit)

  The Black pepper fruit helps to balances Kapha and Vata Doshas and aggravates Pitta Dosha. It also helps the digestive fire. In Ayurveda, Maricha is used as an analgesic and antipyretic.

• Shunthi(Ginger Rhizome)

  Shunthi helps in proper digestion, relieving constipation, abdominal gas, and distension. It is also widely used for treating asthma, cough, and cold symptoms.

• Shweta Jeeraka (White Cumin Seeds)

  It acts as an excellent digestive stimulant and also promotes appetite. Shweta Jeeraka is an Ayurvedic medicine for bloating and gas. Shweta Jeera is rich in iron content. So it is used for the treatment of an anemic patient. It also promotes digestion, regulates diabetics, and facilitates weight loss.

• Pippali (Long Pepper Fruit)

  Pippali is widely used for the treatment of heartburn, indigestion, diarrhea, cholera, asthma, etc. It also improves digestion and skin health.

• Ajmoda Seeds (celery seeds)

  It is called parsley or wild celery. It is used as an Ayurvedic medicine for digestion problems. .

• Saindhava Lavana(Rock Salt)

  Rock salt helps to balance the three doshas. It is used in gas trouble medicines. It is used in traditional medicine as a digestive, antacid, expectorant, carminative, and anti-inflammatory. .

• Krishna Jeeraka (Black Cumin Seeds)

  It is also called Kalonji and is the best remedy for gastric problems. Krishna Jeera increases the Pitta Dosha and pacifies the Kapha and Vata Doshas. In Ayurveda, It is used for the treatment of gas, nausea, indigestion, chemotherapy side effects, headache, toothache, diarrhea, toxicity in liver and kidneys, conjunctivitis, inflammation, and fever.

• Hing [Shuddha](Asafoetida exudate)

  The foremost function of Hing is that it improves the digestive fire and digestion. It relieves cramps and bloating too. It increases Pitta and balances the Vata and Kapha Doshas and restores the movement of Vata.

Ashta Choornam is an Ayurvedic medicine that helps to relieve indigestion and is used as a gas relief medicine and digestion churna. It is made up of eight ingredients, as the name suggests. Maricha, Shunthi, Shweta Jeeraka, Pippali, Ajmoda, Saindhava Lavana, Krishna Jeeraka, and Hingu[Shuddha] are among them.