1. Names:

Sanskrit:	Yavah		Enlarge photo
English:	Barley
Botanical:	Hordeum vulgare
Hindi:	Jau
Telugu:	Yavaka
Common names:	Pearl barley, Scotch barley, Barley, Yavah, Barliarisi, yuva, Ymvah, jave-godhi, Java, Yavaka, Garcinia
Family name:	Graminaceae

2. Parts used:

• Roots

Contents: Hordenine and gramine in young seedlings.

3. Properties and Action According to Indigenous Medical Systems:

• Rasa: Madhura
• Veerya: Seetaveerya
• Guna: Snigdha
• Vipaka: Madhura

4. Uses:

• The Barley water is good remedy for Jaundice.
• It is anti inflammatory, demulcent, nutritive, hepatitis.
• Good source of nutrition.
• It relieves stomach problems, intestinal irritation and sores.
• It also helps to cure tumors.
• It clears mucus.
• It is antioxidant.
• Helpful in soothing and reducing inflammation in sores and swellings.
• It removes poison out of boils, abscesses, stings, and bites.
• Good remedy for weeping eczema.
• It helps to lower blood cholesterol and regulate blood sugar and in preventing bowel cancer due to the presence of beta glucan.
• Cool barley water used as tonic for fevers and to soothe or heal stomach or digestive upsets.
• It relieves irritable bowels, dry coughs, diarrhea, cystits, or irritable bladders.

5. Names due to Physical properties:

• Swetabeeja: White seeds.

6. Names due to Medical properties:

• Seetali: Cooling effect.

7. Reference:

Vasthu guna deepika, Vasthu guna prakashika, Chakradatta, Susrutam, Basabarajeezam, Bhavaprakashika, Vangacena, Charakasamhita, Vagvatamu, Hareetasamhita, Srijanakalpavalli.

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