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| Action :- Locally
antiseptic, anodyne, parasiticide and antiphlogistic. Internally
alterative, tonic, slightly laxative, cholagogue, respiratory stimulant,
disinfectant and expectorant, intestinal antiseptic, diuretic and
lithontriptie. |
Uses :- Charaka says "There is hardly any curable disease which cannot be controlled or cured with the aid of Silajit". It is used by Kavirajas and Hakims in a great variety of diseases. It is specially employed in genito-urinary diseases and in diabetes; in gall stones, jaundice, enlarged spleen, fermentative dyspepsia, worms, digestive troubles, piles, adiposity, anasarca, renal stone, renal and bladder calculi, anuria etc., hysteria, neurasthenia, epilepsy and insanity, nervous diseases; amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea and menorrhagia; scrofula, tuberculosis, phthisis and leprosy; eczema, elephantiasis, anaemia, anorexia, biliary congestion, chronic bronchitis, asthma, fracture of bones etc., in diabetes in which it reduces the quantity of sugar and urine. Shilajit is mainly used in medicine to improve sexual performance and also used as general health tonic in pharmaceutical |
