Kadwi Atish/Ativisha Bitter Root (कड़वी आतिश) : Kadwi Atish, tart and juicy with bitter taste, digestive and Cough, bile, diarrhea, Mucus, venom, vomit and worm remover Herbal product.

It is a 2-3 feet high plant and is found on 6 to 15 thousand feet high peaks in the region of Kumaon, Sikkim and Chamba in the northwestern Himalayas. It is readily available.

Chemical composition: It contains a non-acidic base called aticine, which is very bitter but not toxic. Apart from this, two ribbed bases Hetericisin and Heticin and abundant starch are found in it. Kadwi Atish

This Kadwi Atish Judd is Tridosha sedative. Because of being very bitter, the phlegm and bile and being hot makes the vata suppressor. Due to these three properties, it is useful for the functioning of lamp, digestion, receptors, antipyretic, anthelmintic, common digestion, blood purification and inflammation, so it is used in making medicines that remove these diseases.

Eighties prove very useful and beneficial in many diseases of children, hence it is called ‘Shishu Bhaisya’. For the children, as many knees are available in the market, there are definitely thirty-eight of them. It is a safe herb, so it can be consume fearlessly. A description of its domestic use as a medicine is presented.

Kadwi Atish Benefits: 

Ativisha Bitter Root is bitter and nutritious, so proves useful for diarrhea. Common (diarrhea) in diarrhea, thin stools occur frequently.

Ativisha Bitter Root is useful when digestion does not work at all, there are frequent thin and smelly diarrhea and with feces, pieces of food items come out.

If there are small worms in the stomach of the children, then mix the fine powder of Ativisha Bitter  and Vividung and fill it in the vial. Mix this powder with 2-2 grams of honey in the morning or evening and give it to the child with milk.

Decoction of the roots and leaves is given in case of malarial fever.  The dry Ativisha Bitter Root are powdered and taken orally with lukewarm water twice a day for 3-4 d in fever.

There are many types of herbs and plants available in our country and each herb is useful for some or the other.

Under this, details about the medicinal use and quality benefits of several curative best medicines Kadwi Atish are presented.