Atibala

TRADITIONAL VIEW, WITH SAFETY LIMITS

Hindi name: Kanghi

What the texts say Atibala does

• Balya — strengthening
• Brimhana — nourishing, builds tissue
• Mutrala — diuretic
• Vrishya — aphrodisiac, supports reproductive vigour
• Vranaropana — heals wounds
• Shothahara — reduces swelling

What the evidence says. Traditional use is extensive and long recorded. Modern clinical evidence is limited.

Side effects and limits

• Digestive heaviness
• Loose stool in quantity

Avoid or ask first: No absolute contraindication is documented here. This is written deliberately rather than left blank.

A traditional classification, not a recommendation. The full safety record is below.

AS THE CLASSICAL TEXTS AND THE API PRESCRIBE

Of the Bala group, used as balya and vatahara.

Reported from Sharangadhara Samhita and the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India. Laisha states what the texts prescribe; it does not recommend. No quantity here is adjusted for a particular person — not for agni, koshtha, bala, age, pregnancy, kidney or liver function, or anything already being taken.

A single rasa, madhura, with sheeta virya and madhura vipaka — the same clean balya profile as Bala.

These are the actions the classical texts record. They are statements about what the tradition holds, and this library does not restate them as findings about a human body.

Atibala means greater strength, built on the same word as Bala. The group names are a scale rather than descriptions, which is exactly why they are interchangeable in the market.

Rasa, guna, virya, vipaka and karma are recorded as the classical texts give them, with the text and section named so a student can open the book and check. Where an exact chapter and verse could not be confirmed, this library names the section rather than inventing a number.

The four of the Bala group are substituted for one another freely, which the texts half-permit by naming them as a group. The consequence is not neutral: Bala, Sida cordifolia, contains ephedrine and carries firm contraindications, while Atibala does not. Someone who bought Bala and received Atibala has a milder herb; someone who bought Atibala and received Bala has a stimulant they were not warned about. The direction of the substitution matters.

Matched live against the GBIF backbone on 28 September 2026 at 99 per cent confidence. The second of the four Bala group — Bala, Atibala, Nagabala, Mahabala — which the texts name together and which are routinely substituted for one another.

A WAY TO REMEMBER IT

Abutilon is from Arabic aubutilun. Indicum, of India. Ati-bala means great strength — the Bala group is named for it.

Atibala is described in the Bhavaprakasha Nighantu among the Bala group. That is what the tradition holds and where it is written down, not a finding about what the root does in a body.

Constituents. The plant carries mucilage in quantity, along with flavonoids and sterols. It does not carry the ephedrine that Sida cordifolia does, which is the practical difference between them.

• This is a study and clinical reference for practitioners and students. The matra and anupana it records are what the classical texts and the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India PRESCRIBE — Laisha reports them, it does not recommend them. They are not a prescription for any particular person, and they are not adjusted for your age, agni, koshtha, bala, pregnancy, kidney or liver function, or anything else you are already taking. Only a qualified practitioner who has examined you can do that.
• Traditional classification is recorded as what the classical texts say, with the text and the place in it named so it can be checked. It is not restated as a finding about a human body.
• Nothing here replaces a qualified Ayurvedic practitioner or a doctor.