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Early Period
Earlier medicines were never prepared and never stored. Hand picked herbs and raw dry herbs were used on the spot for treatment. With forests shaven off and the jungles converted into concrete jungles availability of Medicinal Plants became difficult. The common plants grown in the back yard of every family gave way to Anthurium and Begonias. Raw materials had to be bought from far off places and store had to be built. As Samajam does not give priority to sales of medicines through vendors, the requirement mainly was only for the treatment. With some arrangement with the local people and also with the garden in Samajam medicines are prepared fresh to a certain extent.
The Samajam prepares over 300 traditional formulations in Ayurveda. As it is mandatory, it has acquired the Good Manufacturing Practices' certification also. Samajam also has
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some very rare proprietary medicines which are used in Therapeutics, Rejuvenation and Cosmetics.
The quality, strength and effectiveness of the preparations of Samajam is unquestionably unparalleled. All medicine are prepared strictly sticking on to the formula and no medicine will carry the message “without this or that”. The general tendency seen in the market, as the demand for Ayurvedic Preparations shot up to sky high, is that even when some ingredients are not available due to the pressure from the market the manufacturer sells the medicine with a remark on the label “without gold” etc. Then the composition becomes incomplete and medicine ineffective. Samajam medicines are always in full, strictly conforming to its composition. Stringent quality control effectively executed at every stage of the preparation, right from procurement of raw materials to its packing gives Samajam medicines its present value.
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Samajam Touch
The century old system of manufacturing is still followed in Samajam. The heat has to be controlled and hence the fire wood has to be Tamarind. The vessel made of fine Bronze with strict control over its proportion of alloy. The herbs have to be fresh. And top of all the person in supervision should have the integrity. Modern machines may do wonders. But Ayurveda products are not the usual run of the mill stuff. Ayurveda requires a personal touch to every medicine. And that’s the quality assurance people expect from Samajam as Samajam has never disappointed anyone for over a century.
Some of the medicines, for instance Saraswatha Brahmi Gritham, a medicine for boosting memory and for throat disorders, the Ghee, distilled and purified butter, is made from the milk of a single cow rather than the milk purchased from the open market which is a mixture of all sorts of milk. Samajam strictly observes that it is from the same cow and not from different cows. Samajam strictly believe in the true fact that health Care is not an industry and that it is a part of the responsibility of every human being to help the other. Charity comes only next to health.
Truth will survive. False also may survive. but the life of truth is eternal. And Samajam believes in that. It will not take any more time for the public to be with the truth ever though false will have more frills.
The medicines prepared are mainly for the patients both IP and OP. It is made available to all the centres of Samajam and to a handful of registered agencies. OTC, over-the-counter products or neutraseutical products of confusing claims are neither prepared nor served at the Samajam. But Samajam has its own innumerable formulations which are the products of a century old research and tradition. However all products are available only on ethical lines.
Samajam is perhaps the only institution where the sale of medicine is only second to the treatment and health care. Some of the well known institutions run the hospital with a primary motive of selling the medicines. The trade and commerce involved in Ayurveda today, have taken away a lot of ethics from this age old science.
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Proprietary
Samajam has some rare traditional preparation proprietary to Samajam. These are normally not listed in any of the books but in practice for the last 100 years . Formulation of this genre are still prepared in Samajam. Contributed by Thriprangod Parameswaran Mooss to Kuttancherry Mooss to Thirunavaya Mooss to Dr. Rajagopal these medicines with its secret formula are the out come of their observations and findings clubbed with the traditional application.
Over a million patients have thanked Samajam for the relief from their illness, pain and suffering. And these patients have contributed to the growth of ayurveda in terms of updating the medicines.
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Even in the preparation of a simple medicinal cosmetic Kajal, an eye liner, Samajam adopts these strict and stringent measures to adhere to the conventional preparation of Ghee based sooth. Whether it be a complicated Moordha Choornam or a Simple Massage oil the quality in Samajam will be a guideline for others.
Samajam maintains its personal physical touch to every medicine it produces. Moreover, as the Lord Dhanwanthari is considered to be the Lord of medicines, Samajam offers the preparations to Lord Ganesh, the Lord of Obstruction for his blessings before it is sent for use.
The 300 odd medicines prepared in Samajam fall into various categories like Asavams, Arishtams, Grithams, Vadakams, Choornams etc. |
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