• Sakshi Sabharwal
• Nitika Anand
• Simranjeet Kaur
• Vibhu Khanna
• Dileep Singh Baghel

Apamarga (Achyranthes aspera, Amaranthaceae) is a vital healing dravya originate as a unwanted plant all over India. In conventional medication framework all pieces of this plant are utilized like beej, rmoola and shoots. In Atharvaveda, it is said to be kshetriya roga nasak and yatudhan Krimi nasak. In Yajurveda it is said to be used for hawan purpose due to its Rakshoghan Property. No other plant has better water removing property than Apamarga. Apamarga kshara is an alkaline Ayurvedic medicine, in powder form which is prepared from Apamarg- Prickly Chaff-Flower. Kshara is a caustic, alkaline in nature obtained from the ashes of Apamarga dravya. It is adaptable, because even in such places that are difficult in approach by ordinary measures can be treated by kshara. This alkaline preparation may be a amalgam of numerous dravyas or it can be a single dravya. It has a vast series of explanation about kshara explained through Acharaya Sushruta. Kshara has lots of therapeutic usages and also replace many surgical procedures. The large number of phytochemical elements have been extracted out from this plant which possess some properties like Arsha, Kusthaghana, paaproga nasak, Duhswapnanasana, unmade, Apasmara, Ashmari, Hikka-Swaas, Vish Chikitsa etc. The compacted form of herb is utilized in pneumonia and mixture of the root is utilized as gentle astringent in bowel disorders. Traditionally, it is used as anti-diabetic, anti-inflammatory and abortifacient.

Apamarga kshara, Rakshoghana, kushthaghana, Kshetriya roga, Yatudhan Krimi, Paaproga .

"AN OVERVIEW ON: APAMARGA KSHARA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no.301-307, October 2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDQ06043.pdf

"AN OVERVIEW ON: APAMARGA KSHARA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no. pp301-307, October 2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRDQ06043.pdf