Hamdard Cinkara Syrup: Ingredients, Usage, Review, Side Effects & Price

Hamdard Cinkara is proprietary medicine from Hamdard Laboratories. Hamdard Laboratories is an Unani pharmaceutical company. This medicine is non-alcoholic bituminised (Vitamin A, B1, B2, C, D3) polyherbal tonic suitable for all age group.

Here is given more about this medicine, such as benefits, indication/therapeutic uses, composition, and dosage.

Manufacturer: Hamdard
Availability: Online and at medical stores
Type of medicine: Unani Medicine
Main Indication: Herbal tonic for the whole family all the year round

Hamdard Cinkara Ingredients

Ingredients present in this formulation are given below:

As per written on packet, each dose of 30 ml contains

Vitamin A Palmitate I.P equivalent to 1250 I.U of Vitamin A
Vitamin B1 I.P 1.00 mg
Vitamin B2 I.P 1.00 mg
Vitamin C3 I.P 15.00 mg
Niacinamide I.P 13.00 mg
Calcium Lactate I.P 100.00 mg
Sodium Ascorbate I.P 10.00 mg

Conc aqu extract of: (One liter contains extract from 8 gm of each of the following)

Cardamom Fruit (Chhoti-IIaychi)I.P 66
Clove (laung) I.P 66
Coriander (Dhania)I. P 66
Cinnamon (Kalmi Dal chini) I.P 66
Cinnamomum Cassia (Darchini) I.P 55
Rosa Damascena (Gulab ka Phool) U.S.N.F VIII
Dried Orange Peel (Narangi ka Chhilika) I.P 66
Jatamansi (Balchhar)I.P 66
Anisum (Aniseed) I. P 55

Flavours

Oil of Cassia I.P 66
Santalum album Oil U.S.N.F IX
Orange Oil Sweet B.P.C Syrup Base
Appropriate overages of Vitamins added

Vitamin A

Vitamin A is a fat-soluble vitamin. It is naturally present in many foods.

It is important for normal vision, the immune system, and reproduction. Vitamin A

also helps the heart, lungs, kidneys, and other organs work properly. The amount of vitamin A you need depends on age and reproductive status. Recommended intakes for vitamin A for people aged 14 years and older range is 900 micrograms (mcg) daily (3,000 IU) for men and 700 micrograms daily (2,300 IU) for women. Vitamin A is found naturally in many foods and is added to some foods, such as milk and cereal. High intakes of some forms of vitamin A can be harmful.

Calcium Lactate

alcium lactate is a salt that consists of two lactate anions for each calcium cation. It is one of the main sources of calcium that is used as a calcium supplement. Other uses include antacid, food additive, and ingredient in oral hygiene products. Calcium Lactate is indicated for the treatment of calcium deficiency states as a therapeutic supplement in pregnancy, lactation, osteoporosis, post-gastrectomy malabsorption, osteomalacia and rickets. It is also used to treat mild hypocalcemia and for maintenance therapy.

Calcium Lactate is contraindicated in Severe hypercalcaemia and hypercalciuria (eg hypervitaminosis D, hyperparathyroidism, severe renal failure, osteoporosis due to immobility and decalcifying tumors such as plasmocytoma and skeletal metastases). Patients receiving therapy with cardiac glycosides such as digoxin must not be given calcium supplements.

Hamdard Cinkara Health Benefits

It is a non-alcoholic vitaminized herbal tonic.
It has better bioavailability.
It helps to improve in mental performance, anemia, and low appetite.
It can be used as a tonic in all seasons by the whole family.
It improves breast milk production.
It improves growth and intellectual functioning of children.
It improves immunity.
It improves mental functions.
Cinkara is said to have a positive influence on the mental activity, growth and intellectual functioning of children.

Hamdard Cinkara Therapeutic Uses

Cinkara (Hamdard), consists of vitamins (A, B1, B2, C, D3 and niacinamide) and glycerophosphates

Along with aqueous extract from thirteen plants in a flavoured syrupy base. It has been reported to increase psychomotor and mental functions in healthy normal person.

Anemia of pregnancy
During convalescence
Elemental deficiency
Excessive metabolism
General debility
General tonic
Hypolactation
Lack of appetite
Liver disorder
Liver protective
Loss of weight
Low appetite
Malnutrition
Mental weakness
Nervousness & undue tendency to fatigue
Resistance to infection
Rundown and debilitated condition
Strenuous exercise
Stress and acute illness
Vitamin deficiencies
Vitamin deficiency due to antibiotics
Weakness, fatigue, lethargy

Hamdard Cinkara Dosage

Adult can take 2 tablespoonful or 30 ml twice a day after meals.
Children can take 1 tablespoonful twice daily or as directed by the physician.
It is to be taken with water.
Or take as directed by a doctor.

Suggestions

Do check the list of ingredients and their contraindications to avoid any side effects.

Contraindications

There is no known contraindication for this medicine.

It contains sucrose. So, a person who has lost the ability to respond normally to insulin (prediabetes, polycystic ovarian syndrome or type 2 diabetes) should take it cautiously.

Drug Interactions

Please maintain a gap of at least an hour between intake of any allopathic drug and herbal medicine to avoid drug interaction, if any.

Do not use many different medicines for the treatments of the same disease.

Do not take more than one multivitamin supplement at a time to avoid overdose of vitamins and minerals.

Getting too much preformed vitamin A (usually from supplements or certain medicines) can cause dizziness, nausea, headaches, coma, and even death. High intakes of preformed vitamin A in pregnant women can also cause birth defects in their babies. Women who might be pregnant should not take high doses of vitamin A supplements.