Relevance of Shramahara mahakashaya (An anti-fatigue formulation) in sports medicine

Abstract

Sports medicine is an interdisciplinary subspecialty of medicine which deals with the overall care of an athlete at all levels. To gain the pick level of physical and metal activity numbers of sportsman are spoiling their carrier by consuming various kinds of prohibited performance enhancing drugs. Now days this is a burden issue of sports society. Hence the sports societies are looking for safe alternate natural source of medicine to combat this issue. On this scenery present review stands to analyse the applicability of Shramahara mahakashaya in the field of sports medicine. Literary resources were analyzed and discussion was made accordingly. Study presumed that Shramahara mahakashaya mentioned by Acharya Charaka in Charaka samhita sutrasthan 4 th chapter, possess 10 drugs. Out of 10 drugs 7 drugs are fruits with high nutritive value and other active principles. All the drugs are reach source of carbohydrate, protein, fat, mineral and calorie. These all drugs are easily available. Combination of all these drugs can be incorporated as anti-fatigue agent in the field of sports medicine.