Vaca

Distribution                                    

Cultivated In Wet Places In India.

Chemical Constituents

Acolamone, acorenone, acoramone, acorone, azulene, cadalene, calacorene, calamine, calamenole, calamone, eugenol, acoric acid etc

Ayurvedic Properties

Pharmacological Action

• Hypotensive: this action helps in curing blood pressure related problems.
• Its anticulvulsant action helps in curing epilepsy.
• Carcinogenic property helps in curing different kinds of malignant and benign growths in the body.
• It is an insecticidal so the fumes of the rhizome helps in warding off the insects and certain rodents from houses.
• Antimicrobial and antibacterial property helps in preventinf inflammations and certain infections in the body.

Therapeutic Uses

• Amlapitha: vaca powder is taken with honey and jaggery.
• Apasmara: vaca powder should be taken with honey and ghee for 3 days with milk as anupana.
• Sopha and vrddhi: the paste of vaca and sarsapa may be applied locally.
• Vocal improvement: paste of vaca will be applied on tongue and swallowed to improve voice in kids.
• Combination of vacha, shankhapushpi and brahmi with honey is very much helpful in epilepsy and mental retardation.
• A pinch of vacha with a glass of warm water helps in digestive disorders like intestinal worms, flatulence and indigestion etc.

Some of the common formulations

• Vacadi churna
• Vacadi ghrita
• Bala chaturbhadra churna
• Vacavalehya.