Chopchini: Uses in multiple Health Issues
Botanical name of Chopchini: Smilax china
Latin Name: Smilax China
English Name- China Root, Hindi Name – Chopchini, Chobchini, Toupchini, Mizoram – Kaitha, Tamil – Ayadi, Malayam – Kaltamara, Marathi – Ghotvel, Telugu – Konddantena, Kannada – Kaadu hambu, Oriya – Mootrilata
Description
This is a forest medicine of China and Japan. In India, it also grows in the state of Assam. But most of the imports are from China. That is why in Sanskrit it is called Dvipantarvacha. Latin says smilax china. This is a small-sized variety of chopchini and is more effective than other types of chopchini.
Chipchini creepers are found scattered in the mountains of Japan, Brahmadesh, Cochin, China, Assam, and Sikkim. Chopchini also grows in the Sylhet area of Bengal, Sylhet chopchini is a little powerless, has many fibrous knots, lightweight and soft, and its branch is generally like the newly grown bamboo branches of North India and Bengal.
Its leaves are thin, and slightly elevated, like cinnamon leaves; But smaller than that. The root of chopchini is strong and fibrous. It turns dark and pink. Roots are slightly sweet. Especially the fresh roots are sweet. Chopchini root is mostly 4-6 inches long, 1-2 inches thick, and fits in the fist; Some are even thinner than that. Some have few nodules and some have many nodules; Some are straight and some are curved, some are sticky and smooth and some are rough. Some are heavy and some are light, some are hard and some are soft, Some are white and dirty and some are brown shiny. Excellent chopchini are dark and pink in color, sweet, large, and straight cut.
The chopchini which is light, white, and loose is raw. A variety that is glossy black, hard, fibrous, gummy in appearance, knotty, and cracked; this chopchini is not good for use.
- Large-sized variety chopchini (Smilax glabra) is the Indian chopchini. It is found in the eastern part of Bengal.
- Hindi Chopchini which is called (Smilax lanceaefolia) in Latin. Its leaves are sharp and have large veins on them, its vines are found in East Bengal.
- Wild Ushwa which is called macromsylia in Latin. Its large thorny creeper is found in the forests of Konkan and Malabar. Also called Ushwa Magarbo or Sarsaparilla (Smilax crnata).
It is said that the gout disease of King Charles, the fifth king of England, was cured by the consumption of Chopchini from China. And as its fame spread across Europe, it got a place in the British Pharmacopoeia. But now he has been removed from there.
It is not mentioned in the ancient Aryan texts of India, but in the medieval treatise of Bhavprakash, it has been mentioned by the name of Dwipantarvacha.
Chemical Composition
Fat, sugar, glucoside, saponin, gum and starch are found in Chopchini
Useful Parts
Knotted roots: It is eight to ten fingers long, half to one inch thick, knotted, fiberless, rough or even smooth, pink or white, and slightly blackish.
Precaustions
Keep in mind, as it gets older, dust accumulates in it and makes it appear porous. The same chopchini, whether fine or lump-free, should not be used for medicinal purposes and the one which is light in weight, completely white, or completely black, crooked, and having many glands, should also not be used.
If you want to preserve the best Chopchini, then dipping it in honey or keeping it in sugar does not spoil it and there is no reduction in its properties. It should be protected from contact with camphor or musk and sunlight, smoke, dust, rain, heat, and cold, otherwise, its effect decreases.
Chopchini is not beneficial for people who have heat in their bodies. It should also be consumed for cough-related disorders at the beginning of winter or spring. It is not good to consume in extreme cold or extreme heat.
Properties
It has properties like Laghu, Ruksha, Tikta, Katu, Vipaka, Ushnavirya, Tridosha sedative, Vipan, Anuloman, stool urine purifier, pain reliever, blood purifier, Vrishya, semen purifier, urinary, sweating, bitter and nutritious. It is used to cure diseases like insanity, epilepsy, dysentery, colic, worms, inflammation, goiter, fever, disorders like weakness, blood disorders, skin diseases, fistula, paralysis, piles, etc. Chopchini is an excellent chemical. It is applied to increase libido and to cure semen disorders.
Chopchini in Syphilis, Skin diseases, Chronic headache, Piles, Blood impurities, Leprosy, Scrofula, etc
- Syphilis – In chronic syphilis disease, blood gets distorted and there are boils in the whole body, stiffness of joints, itching, dark skin, and spots of blood disorders, etc., take Chopchini powder in the quantity of three grams with milk or sugar. It is beneficial if consumed twice a day in a dietary manner for at least 2 months.
Or
- Take 160 grams of powder of chopchini along with 40 grams of sugar candy, small pepper, peeparamool, black pepper, cloves, akarkara, Khorasani carom seeds, dry ginger, baividang, and cinnamon all these ingredients 10 grams each, mix all these and grind them well.
Dose: 6-gram powder of all these twice a day, with hot water for six months.
Consume chopchini powder mixed with honey twice a day, this cures all skin disorders.
- Leprosy & Skin diseases: Mix Chopchini, Mastaki, Cardamom, and Cinnamon powder with milk and drink it. This also cures gout, chronic rheumatic disorders, weakness, etc. These are beneficial in leprosy and other skin diseases.
- Chronic Headache & Fever: Consuming Chopchini powder with butter and sugar candy in case of headache relieves the headache caused by mental stress or weakness due to chronic fever in a few days. In case of chronic headache, it is consumed with the decoction of Anantmool.
- Piles – Take 3-3 grams of powder with sugar or sugar candy and ghee and make 2 laddus (Balls) And eat one laddu (Ball) each in the morning and evening and drink cow’s milk. Only wheat bread, ghee, sugar, and milk should be given in the diet. Benefits are achieved in 14 days. If you feel heat in the body after using this, then reduce the quantity of medicine and take more ghee and milk in your diet.
- Physical Weakness: Consume 3 to 5 grams of chopchini powder and equal part sugar and drink milk. By taking it twice a day, your strength will increase within a few days, and nightfall will be cured. Kidneys and bladder will be purified and abdominal gas also will be cured.
- Scrofula (Gandmala): Take 6 to 12 grams of chopchini powder with honey twice daily.
Ayurved Formulas of Chopchini
Chopchini Modak (Balls)
Take 320-320 grams of chopchini, sugar candy cow Ghee (clarified butter) 4-4 grams of pure iron ash (LohBhasma), and pure mansil and mix them all and make 30-30 grams of laddus (Balls) in the morning and at night. Consume it with cow milk in the morning and night, it will help to cure fractures, and chronic syphilis – an acute form of varicose veins. , blood disorders, leprosy, etc.
Chopchini Avaleh
12 parts Chopchini, cinnamon, mace, Chitrakmool bark, cloves, parsley, Banshlochan, nisoth, triphala, and patraj, every 2 parts and three times the honey from the powder make honey syrup, make fine powder of all herbs and add into honey syrup.
Dosage – Consuming 10 grams in the morning empty stomach (you can also take it in the evening) is especially beneficial in curing Gonorrhea, Gastric problems, Gout pain, and Arthritis. It strengthens semen.
Chopchini Churna remedy
Chopchini 250 grams, Sugar candy 40 grams; Pepper, Black pepper, cloves, Ajmod(Apium graveolens), Baividnag (Embelia ribes), Akalkaro( Anacyclus Pyrethrum) dry ginger, and cinnamon; Weigh 10 grams each, grind all of them properly, make a fine powder and strain with a fine cloth.
This Churna (Powder) is used for all diseases like Gonorrhea, syphilis, worms, impotence joint pain, etc.
Dose: 1 gram with warm water. 2 times a day
Common Uses: Induces sleep, It is quickly absorbed into all parts of the body. It improves liver functions, kidney functions, and sexual vitality. It helps to release constipation. It is useful in paralysis, tremors, convulsions, headaches, migraines, nausea, dizziness, mania, etc.,
All kinds of Vata diseases, as well as leucoderma all kinds of wounds, scabies, itching, kidney and bladder wounds, etc.; It is useful for Piles, Old Wounds, Uterus diseases, measles, chicken pox, dropsy, Jaundice, fever, eye disease and leucorrhea, prostate disease and to prevent seminal secretion. It helps to get rid of opium addiction and all kinds of skin diseases,
Does: Depending on nature, disease, and season.
Botanical Names of herbs which are used in different compositions
Pipar(Capsicum annuum),
Piparimool (Piper Longum)
Black pepper (Piper nigrum),
Clove(Syzygium aromaticum)
Akarkaro ( Anacyclus Pyrethrum)
Ajmod (Apium graveolens
Sonth (Zingiber officinale)
Baividang (Embelia ribes)
Nirgundi (Vitex negundo)
Neem (Azadirachta indica)
Mastaki (Pistacia lentiscus)
Elaichi (Elettaria cardamomum)
Cinnamon Cinnamomum verum)
Tagar Ganthoda (Valeriana hardwickii)
Sugandhbala (Valeriana Wallichii)
Agar(Aquilaria agallocha Roxb)
Harde (Terminalia chebula)
Honey (Apis mellifera)
Kesar (Crocus sativus)
Saalam (Syzygium polyanthum)
Dessert Dates (Balanitis aegyptiaca)
Surnjaan (Colchicum luteum)
Clove (Syzygium aromaticum),
Kapoor (Cinnamomum camphora),
Tej Paat (Cinnamomum tamala)
Naag Kesar (Mesua ferrea),
Pipal (Ficus religiosa),
Gambhari(Gmelina arborea)
Javitri( Myristica fragrans)