Abstract

A CRITICAL REVIEW ARTICLE ON CONTROVERSIAL DRUGS (SANDIGDHA DRAVYAS) MENTIONED IN AYURVEDA

Neha Rai*, Suresh Chaubey and Shailendra Pradhan

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Abstract

India is a very vast country. It is one of the world’s top 12 mega diversity country, so many different species of plant are present. It is just a continent with various languages, various dialects, various types of persons. So, one plant is known by various names in different parts of country. There is a proverb in Gujarati “Bar gauye boli Badlaya” means at every twelve miles the names of the plant gets changed which has resulted and contributed to many controversial plants or sandigdha dravyas. Present article is an approach to study controversial drugs and methods to overcome controversies related to it.

Keywords: Controversial drugs, Sandigdha dravyas.