Sugar Candy

Sita (sugar candy / Mishri) is the most refined and purified form of sugar. It is sweet, cold, light, and considered the best among all sugarcane products for Pitta-related conditions. It alleviates Pitta and Vata, relieves burning sensation, thirst, bleeding disorders, and vomiting. Sita (Mishri) is widely used as a vehicle (Anupana) for many medicines and is a key ingredient in numerous Ayurvedic formulations. It is recommended as the ideal sweetener for those with Pitta constitution or Pitta-predominant disorders. Verses 16-18.

• Pittahara (alleviates Pitta)
• Vata-hara (alleviates Vata)
• Raktapitta-hara (alleviates bleeding disorders)
• Daha-prashamana (relieves burning sensation)
• Trishna-nigrahana (quenches thirst)
• Chardi-nigrahana (anti-emetic)

):व ृ याः म ीण त हता र त प ता नलापहाः यि डकाख ड सताः मेण गुणव तमाः ४९ Matsyandika (brown sugar), Khanda (sugar candy) and Sita (white crystalline sugar) in their succeeding order are better.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Drava Vigyaniya Drinkables

नानानुलेपन हमा नलख डखा यशीता बुद ु धरसयूषसुरा स नाः सेवेत चानु शयनं वरतौ रत य त यैवमाशु वपष ु ः पन ु रे त धाम After the act, the man should indulge himself in bath, applying scented paste, exposure to cool breeze, drinking of syrup prepared from sugar candy, cold water, milk, meat juice, soup, Sura – fermented liquor prepared from grains, Prasanna – clear supernatant fluid of Sura and then go to sleep;

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Anna Raksha Vidhi

Sugar candy, bamboo manna, long pepper, cardamom, cinnamon — each doubled in ratio (4:2:1:0.

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 8: Consumption and Wasting Disease Treatment (Rajayakshma Chikitsa / राजयक्ष्मचिकित्सितं)

The wise physician should console the patient and administer the portion of sharkara (sugar candy), saugandhika (Nymphaea alba), draksha (Vitis vinifera), payasya (Ipomea dioitata), madhuka (Glycyrrhiza glabra) and honey.

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 23: Poison Treatment (Visha Chikitsa / विषचिकित्सा)

Patient of vatarakta should take ghee cooked with decoction of draksha (vitis vinifera) and madhuka (Bassia latifolia), along with sugar candy or be given with milk, which is well boiled with juice of guduchi (Tinospora cordifolia).

— Charaka Samhita, Chikitsa Sthana — Therapeutic Principles, Chapter 29: Gout Treatment (Vatarakta Chikitsa / वातरक्तचिकित्सा)

Crudely powdered sugar candy added to honey-ghee linctus for enhanced palatability.

— Charaka Samhita, Kalpa Sthana — Pharmaceutical Preparations, Chapter 7: Pharmaceutical Preparations of Shyama and Trivrita (Shyamatrivrita Kalpa Adhyaya / श्यामात्रिवृत कल्प अध्याय)

Palatability enhancers: cinnamon bark, saffron, Amrataka, pomegranate, cardamom, sugar candy, honey, Matulunga, alcohol, or sour drinks.

— Charaka Samhita, Kalpa Sthana — Pharmaceutical Preparations, Chapter 7: Pharmaceutical Preparations of Shyama and Trivrita (Shyamatrivrita Kalpa Adhyaya / श्यामात्रिवृत कल्प अध्याय)