Withania Somnifera Root Powder (Ashwagandha, Indian Ginseng, Winter Cherry)

What are the health benefits?

It is commonly used in emaciation of children (when it is given with milk, it is considered as the best tonic for children), debility from the old age, rheumatism, vitiated conditions of vata, leukoderma, constipation, insomnia, nervous breakdown, goiter etc.

It helps in conditions like chronic fatigue, weakness, dehydration, bone weakness, loose teeth, thirst, impotency, premature aging and emaciation. It is famous to cure impotency and increase sex appeal and fertility when used solitarily or in combination with other medications.

How to use it?

Women's Sexual Health

Ashwagandha is also beneficial to women’s sexual health, it helps to improve arousal, lubrication, orgasm, and satisfaction which increases the number of successful sexual encounters and improves their sex lives and sexuality. It strengthens the female reproductive organs and enhances the maturation of the eggs into follicles.

Take 6 grams of Ashwagandha root powder with milk for 5 to 6 successive nights after menstruation.

Caution: The herb possesses properties that can abort a fetus and hence must be avoided by pregnant women.

Male Sexual Health

Two to four grams of the root powder with milk or ghee can be taken to enhance libido, it is beneficial in treating spermatorrhea or involuntary ejaculation. Two to four grams of the powdered root can also be taken daily with sugar, honey, long pepper and ghee in the treatment of this condition.

Skin Health

The leaves of the plant are beneficial in treating serval skin disorders, and fomentation of the leaves is good for boils and swollen hands and feet. A paste of the leaves is locally applied to kill lice infesting the body and on carbuncles and syphilitic sores.

What is the recommended dose?

• Relieve Stress - Take 5 grams of Ashwagandha powder, boil it with 1 ½ cup of water, and reduce it to 1 cup. Strain it and add honey and lemon. 
• Male Infertility - Take 3 grams of Withania somnifera root powder with honey or rock sugar and ghee. Mix it well and take this mixture with lukewarm milk. 
• Sexual Health - Take 3 grams of Withania somnifera root powder with lukewarm milk at bedtime.