Mudgaparni

TRADITIONAL VIEW, WITH SAFETY LIMITS

Hindi name: Mugvan

What the texts say Mudgaparni does

• Jivaniya — vitalising, life-sustaining
• Balya — strengthening
• Daha prashamana — relieves burning
• Jwaraghna — used in fever
• Vrishya — aphrodisiac, supports reproductive vigour

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

Side effects and limits

A wild legume in long use, closely related to the food pulses, with no significant toxicity recorded. Anyone pregnant, on medication or managing a diagnosed condition should speak to a doctor or a qualified practitioner first.

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

The classical jivaniya matra, usually paired with Mashaparni.

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.

Madhura and kashaya with sheeta virya and madhura vipaka — the profile of the Jivaniya group it belongs to.

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.

Mudgaparni and Mashaparni are a pair and are learnt together: one has the leaf of the green gram, the other the leaf of the black gram.

Mudgaparni and Mashaparni are routinely interchanged in the market, and several trailing Fabaceae of field margins are collected as either. Since both are legitimate dravya with similar profiles the substitution is less consequential than most, but a formula naming both and receiving one twice is still not the formula.

Vigna trilobata is the accepted Mudgaparni, formerly published as Phaseolus trilobus. It is named for its resemblance to mudga, the green gram, and that resemblance is the recognition character the texts intend.

A WAY TO REMEMBER IT

Vigna honours Domenico Vigna. Trilobata, for the three-lobed leaflet. Mudgaparni means the one with the leaf of mudga, the green gram — the name is the identification key, which is not true of many dravya.

Mudgaparni is named among the Jivaniya mahakashaya of the Charaka Samhita and in the Kakolyadi gana of the Sushruta Samhita. That is what the tradition records and where.

• 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.