Abheshaja: Meaning, Types, Clinical Significance

Article via Dr Raghuram Y.S. MD (Ay) & Dr Manasa S, B.A.M.S

Meaning of Abheshaja

Bheshaja in most cases approach drugs. The time period additionally comprises any materials or non-material or strategies, measures and comforts which assist in curing a illness.

Bheshaja is precisely reverse of Bheshaja, relating to which means and in addition motion.

Word Split

–        A = no longer

–        Bheshaja = drugs

–        Abheshaja = A + Bheshaja – (that which is) no longer a medication

Abheshaja, thus, will also be the rest –

–        which isn’t a medication

–        which doesn’t treatment any illness or does no longer have capability to take action i.e. no healing advantages

–        which can’t save you a illness

–        which doesn’t have capability to damage the cycle of pathogenesis i.e. samprapti vighatana

–        which is able to purpose bother, miseries, aspect / opposed results, headaches or worsening of illness instantly after their use or after a very long time in their utilization

Types of Abheshaja

अभेषजं च द्विविधम् बाधनं सानुबाधनं।च.चि.१.१/५।

Abheshaja is of 2 varieties. They are –

1.   Badhana – the ones which purpose miseries or opposed results and headaches instantly after their utilization i.e. they purpose negative effects in very fast time
2.   Sanubadhana – the ones which purpose miseries or opposed results and headaches or illnesses after they’re used ceaselessly for lengthy time frame i.e. their have an effect on is sluggish and can produce negative effects after a very long time

But more often than not, Abheshaja will and will have to produce distress or opposed results, someday and therefore no longer secure to make use of.

Some medications (trendy) were banned from production or prescription or sale and feature been withdrawn from the pharmaceutical marketplace branding them as ‘generally not safe to use’ since they have got produced opposed results or life-threatening headaches each and every time, in a normal inhabitants. They will also be thought to be as Abheshaja.

Context & Clinical Significance

Acharya Charaka mentions Abhesaja and its varieties in the similar context as he explains Bheshaja and its varieties, actually instantly after giving the synonyms of Bheshaja and bringing up its varieties.

By this Acharya Charaka has pointed in opposition to the importance of realizing no longer most effective Bheshaja but additionally in regards to the Abheshaja. A doctor will have to know Abheshaja to tell apart it from Bheshaja and in addition steer clear of the usage of them in his scientific observe. By doing so, he would steer clear of headaches and undesired negative effects of remedy.

It is essential to tell apart between Abheshaja and Anupashaya. Anupashaya is in most cases ‘a medicine not helping therapeutically or causing some complication or triggering of problem’ in a specific individual and might not be generalized to everybody. Abheshaja is one thing which isn’t a medication and when administered would purpose opposed results in everybody, someday, more often than not and therefore will have to no longer be used.

Reference – Charaka Samhita Chikitsa Sthana Chapter 1, segment 1, verse 5 (Cha.Chi.1.1/5)

Since we don’t have an elaborate clarification of Abheshaja, it is smart in working out it from the viewpoint of the reason to be had for ‘Bheshaja’, since Abheshaja is reverse of Bheshaja and is the whole lot which Bheshaja isn’t.

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