Kharjura

TRADITIONAL VIEW, WITH SAFETY LIMITS

Hindi name: Khajur

What the texts say Kharjura does

• Brimhana — nourishing, builds tissue
• Balya — strengthening
• Vrishya — aphrodisiac, supports reproductive vigour
• Raktapittahara — used in bleeding disorders (raktapitta)
• Dahaprashamana — relieves burning
• Kasahara — relieves cough

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
• Weight gain with prolonged use

Avoid or ask first: Kidney disease with potassium restriction.; Known sulphite sensitivity, as regards treated fruit.

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

AS THE CLASSICAL TEXTS AND THE API PRESCRIBE

Classical brimhana and vrishya; a staple of Kharjuradi mantha.

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.

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.

Duraroha, hard to climb, names the palm rather than the fruit — the tradition identifying a plant by the labour of harvesting it.

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.

Dates are commonly coated with glucose syrup to look glossy and plump, which adds sugar and weight. Sulphite treatment is used on pale varieties. The small wild Indian date is sold as the large imported kind where the buyer cannot compare.

Matched live against the GBIF backbone on 28 September 2026 at 99 per cent confidence. The texts also use Phoenix sylvestris, the wild Indian date, under the same name, and distinguish the two as the imported and the country kind.

A WAY TO REMEMBER IT

Phoenix is the Greek for the date palm and for Phoenicia. Dactylifera is daktylos (finger) + fero — finger-bearing, for the shape of the fruit.

Kharjura is described in the Charaka Samhita among the fruits and in the Bhavaprakasha Nighantu. That is what the tradition holds and where it is written down, not a finding about what the fruit does in a body.

Constituents. The fruit is largely sugars, with fibre, potassium and iron.

Grown as a crop: how to grow date palm, from sowing to harvest, in Laisha's grow guides.

• 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.