Gambhari
The root of a fast-growing tree with yellow-brown flowers and a fine, pale timber. Gambhari is one of the five tree roots of dashamoola.
- Settles Vata
- Settles Pitta
- Settles Kapha
How Ayurveda reads gambhari
- Rasa · taste
- Bitter, astringent, sweet (tikta, kaṣāya, madhura)
- Guṇa · nature
- Heavy (guru)
- Vīrya · potency
- Heating (uṣṇa)
- Vipāka · after digestion
- Pungent (kaṭu)
- Part used
- Root
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In the tradition
Gambhari, gamhar in Hindi, is a tall tree of the plains and lower hills, grown for its light, strong timber, which is used for carving, drums and furniture. Caraka calls it kāśmarya.
Gambhari is one of the greater five roots of dashamoola.
How Ayurveda reads it
Gambhari root is bitter, astringent and sweet, heavy, and heating. It is described as settling all three doshas, above all Vata. The fruit is read differently, as cooling.
How we use it
We use dried gambhari root as one of the ten in our Dashmoola Kwath.
Gambhari in our blends
From the texts: Caraka Saṃhitā, Sūtrasthāna 4 (kāśmarya, in the daśamūla); Suśruta Saṃhitā, Sūtrasthāna 38 (bṛhat pañcamūla); Bhāvaprakāśa Nighaṇṭu, Guḍūcyādi varga.
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