Review Article
Year: 2019 | Month: November | Volume: 9 | Issue: 11 | Pages: 57-61
Vajikarana (Aphrodisiac): Misconception among Masses
Nitin Pandey1, Aparna Tripathi2, Sanjiv Tripathi3
1Professor (Kayachikitsa), 2Asso.Professor (Kayachikitsa), 3Asso.Professor (Shalya Tantra),
Himalayaee Ayurvedic (PG) Medical College, Dehradun (U.K).
Gram - Fatehpur Tanda, Post - Via Doiwala, Jeevanwala, Dehradun (Uttrakhand) - 248140
Corresponding Author: Nitin Pandey
ABSTRACT
Ayurveda is divided into eight branches, each chiseled carefully to meet out the specific needs in the process of maintenance of health and prevention of diseases. Vajikarana is one of them, designed specifically for dealing with all types of physical and psychological sexual problems - e.g., impotency, libido, poor erection and early ejaculation in males; sterility and frigidity in females. The purpose of vajikarana is to resolve the sexual activity related problems in men and women and of course infertility. Unfortunately this way of treatment was put to misuse by the kings and emperors during Mogul period, who used it only to infuse sexual power. That trend has continued in the present times also and as such vajikarana is looked upon in the same way by the general population. A large number of the adolescents and adults use vajikarana medicines only under the influence of the advertisements and peer groups, without a proper knowledge of their correct usage. The rise of incidences as infertility (50 per cent in India since 1981) and erectile dysfunction, coupled with a poor check on sale of ayurvedic medicines, has also contributed to the over- indulgence and blind usage of this class of ayurvedic drugs. This paper serves to eradicate the misconception of vajikarana as well as focussing on the utility of the same.
Key words: Aphrodisiac, Vajikarana, Infertility etc