MEDICINAL IMPORTANCE OF SHAKAVARGA DRAVYA (VEGETABLE DRUGS): A REVIEW
Abstract
The food itself acts as medicines and nature presented many plants which can be used as vegetables and also possess enormous medicinal values. The vegetables available as dietary materials offer nutritional values and also imparts therapeutic role in many pathological conditions. The disease free states can be achieved with the help of appropriate dietary and daily routine, in this regards some vegetables acts as drug and considered useful for preventing and treating many diseases. Vegetable’s provides vitamins, minerals and essential components requiring for health promotion and disease resistance. There are many vegetables which not only useful for their nutritional value but also used for medicinal purpose. The phyto-constituents present in vegetables such as; steroids, flavonoids and glycosides, etc. are responsible for different Guna, Rasa, Virya and Vipaka thus relieves various pathological conditions.
Key-Words: Ayurveda, Drugs, Vegetables, Disease
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