Nine plants.One gram.Nothing else.
Vedaviom Healthcare makes one Ayurvedic formulation. We have not been in a hurry to make a second.
Where most of it goes wrong
Most tongkat ali is dug at four years.
The root is worth lifting at eight. At four it is thinner, paler, and carries a fraction of what the plant is bought for — but it is on the market four years sooner, which is the entire argument for doing it.
Almost nobody waits. Waiting costs half a decade, and half a decade is expensive.
Vedaviom Healthcare
One formulation, since 2019.
We are a small house in Ahmedabad. We make Shānta and nothing besides, in batches small enough that a single person signs off on each one.
There is no range to cross-sell into and no roadmap of launches. If we make a second formulation it will be because it needed to exist, not because the catalogue looked thin.
- AYUSH licensed
- Manufactured under licence no. AY/GJ/2019/1184, Gujarat.
- GMP certified facility
- Schedule T compliant. Audited annually by an external body.
- Vegetarian hardgel
- Hypromellose shell, not gelatin. No shellac, no titanium dioxide.
- Independently tested
- Heavy metals, pesticides and markers, per lot. Reports on request.
The formulation
Nine plants. Two of them are not Ayurvedic.
Maca grows on the Peruvian altiplano and tongkat ali comes from Malay practice. Neither belongs to this tradition, and we name that rather than filing them under one they do not.
- 01Root
Maca
Lepidium meyenii
Andean, and present in a small quantity - 02Root
Shatavari
Asparagus racemosus
The cooling counterweight - 03Fruit
Gokharu
Tribulus terrestris
The classical pairing for musli - 04Stem
Guduchi
Tinospora cordifolia
The one the texts call amrita - 05Tuber
Vidarikand
Pueraria tuberosa
The smallest quantity in the formula - 06Tuber
Varahikand
Dioscorea bulbifera
Bulk and ballast, in the classical sense - 07Root
Ashwagandha
Withania somnifera
The steadying end of the formula - 08Root
Tongkat Ali
Eurycoma longifolia
The largest inclusion, and the least Ayurvedic - 09Tuberous root
Safed Musli
Chlorophytum borivilianum
Rasayana, in the strict sense of the word
How it is made
Eleven days from root to capsule.
A kwath is a decoction reduced over hours until what is left is concentrated enough to matter. Our process borrows the principle if not the vessel: nothing here is fast, and the slow parts are slow deliberately.
Step 1. Day 1
Intake, and refusal
Every lot is screened before it is allowed into the building — heavy metals, pesticide residue, microbial load, and identity against a reference sample. Roughly one lot in six goes back. Tongkat ali is checked hardest, because a four-year root and an eight-year root look similar and are not.
Step 2. Days 2–3
Sorted and peeled by hand
Stones, root hair and the pale under-mature pieces are picked out by people who have done it long enough to work quickly. Safed musli is peeled here too, by hand, because a machine fractures the root and fractured pieces darken. There is no equipment that does either job as well, and we have looked.
Step 3. Days 4–6
Shade-dried, never kilned
Heat is fast and it costs you the volatiles. Ours dry on racks in moving air, which takes three days instead of six hours. The gokharu fruit is the exception — it goes into the sun, which is the only thing that hardens the burr enough to mill.
Step 4. Days 7–9
Reduced, in the manner of a kwath
Each plant is extracted separately at its own ratio, then concentrated under low heat until what is left is dense enough to dose in milligrams. Varahikand and ashwagandha go in as whole milled root rather than extract, which is how the classical pairing specifies them.
Step 5. Day 10
Blended, then weighed against the shell
Nine components, weighed to the formulation, and nothing else — no flow agent, no filler, no bulking starch. A gram of actives leaves almost no headroom in the capsule, so the blend density is checked against the shell before filling. If it runs light the capsules close; if it runs heavy the batch is re-milled rather than reduced.
Step 6. Day 11
Tested again, then signed
Raw material passing is not the same as finished capsules passing, so the batch is tested a second time as the thing you will actually swallow. One person signs it off, by name, and that name is on the certificate.
Why we work this way
Ayurveda was never a shortcut.
It is a system built on repetition over long periods — dinacharya, the ordering of a day; rasayana, preparations taken for months rather than moments. Its whole logic is accumulation.
Which sits badly with an industry that sells transformation by Friday. We would rather be honest about the timescale than compete on a promise we would have to break.
Nothing worth taking daily announces itself in the first week.
The formulation
Shānta
शान्त
Settled — an unusual name for a formulation of this kind, and the whole argument. Capacity that arrives steadily and stays, rather than an afternoon of borrowed energy paid back the same evening.
- Form
- 30 capsules · 30 g
- Plants
- 9
- Ritual
- Daily, after a meal
Begin after a meal.
Two capsules, once a day, twenty minutes after eating. One container is fifteen days — give it two before you decide.