Lehyam or lehya is an ayurvedic medicinal category for jam like preparations. These preparations are usually semi solid and sweet in taste. They are usually prepared using sugar or jaggery, herbs and ayurvedic herbo-mineral ingredients.
Avaleha, Lehya or lehyam are semi solid ayurvedic medicines prepared from sugar syrup, jaggery, herbal pulp, herbal powder, herbal decoctions and other ingredients.
Common Ingredients of Avaleha
Herbs, decoction of herbs, clarified butter, jaggery (or sugar, sugar candy) are common ingredients of lehyam.
- Herbs used in decoction
- Pulps of certain herbs
- Powders of certain herbs
- Cow’s ghee – clarified butter
- Sugar – Jaggery, sugar syrup or sugar candy etc.
- Oils – Sesame oil is mainly used, but other oils can also be taken for preparation of lehya.
List of Lehyam
- Abhayamrita rasayanam
- Agasthya rasayana
- Ajamamsa rasayanam
- Aswagandhadi lehyam
- Amrasara rasayana
- Amritha rasayana
- Aswagandhadi lehyam
- Brahma rasayana
- Cheriya chinchadi lehyam
- Cheriya madhusnuhi rasayanam
- Chinchadi lehyam
- Chitrak Haritaki Avaleha
- Chitraka lehyam
- Chyawanprash rasayana
- Dasamoolahareethaki lehyam
- Dasamoola rasayanam
- Drakshadi lehyam
- Gandhakaraja rasayana
- Gomutra haritaki lehyam
- Haritakyadi rasayanam
- Haridra khanda
- Hrudya virechana lehyam
- Kalyanagulam lehyam
- Kautajadi gulam
- Kushmanda rasayana
- Kurinji kuzhambu
- Kutajatwagadi leham
- Madana modakam
- Madhusnuhi rasayanam
- Maha vilwadi lehyam
- Manibhadra lehyam
- Mridwikadi lehyam
- Narasimha rasayanam
- Narayanagula lehya
- Nayopayam lehyam
- Parushakadi lehyam
- Pragbaktha lehya
- Pulileham (pulimkuzhampu) lehyam
- Punarnava mandaoram lehya
- Shathavaree gulam lehya
- Sita vatakam lehya
- Soorana modakam
- Sukumara rasayanam
- Svasahara lehya
- Thaleesapathradi lehyam
- Trivrit lehyam
- Valiya chinchadi lehyam
- Valiya madhusnuhi rasayanam
- Vidaryadi lehyam
- Vilwadi lehyam
- Vyoshadi vatakam lehya