Guest guest Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 phanta ("phant") is a hot/warm infusion hima ("heem") is a cold infusion kvatha ("qath") is a decoction hot infusions are useful for plants with constituents that require a little heat to make them soluble (most leafy herbs, some seeds) cold infusions are useful for plants with heat labile constituents, such as mucilage (e.g. fenugreek, marshmallow) and delicate volatile oils (e.g. mint) decoction is best to extract the constituents contained within the tough, fibrous cell walls of roots, barks and seeds generally speaking, decoctions are inappropriate for herbs that contain volatile or heat-labile constituents best... todd > On 18-Jul-06, at 12:27 PM, ayurveda wrote: > Re: Stop to prescribe by Baba Ramdev on disease > > Posted by: "kailas datrange" drkailasp (AT) (DOT) co.in drkailasp > > Tue Jul 18, 2006 2:33 am (PST) > > This author agrees with what Dr.Bhate said another procedure which > is called by Dr.Bhate as "Heem" but more appropriate word for the > warm water and lemon example will be "Phant" according to ayurveda > also same way "Heem" is prepared as described by him but water used > is cold as Heem means cold and hence Ayurveda has given another > name for it as Sheetkashay" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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