Practical and easy pharmaceutical techniques / procedure for preparing kukkutandatwak bhasma.

Abstract

Rasa medicines has been used for different therapeutic purposes since long in ayurveda but the only hitch lies in  is its cumbersome and difficult  time consuming methods of preparation. Drugs such as kukkutanda twaka bhasma is most commonly used medicines in routine practice.

The present study includes the altered practical methods of preparation of the above mentioned medicine keeping the basic principles of rasa aushadhies in mind.

Introduction

In the  present era of modern medicine more researches are in process to study nano medicines but the same is mentioned ages back in rasa shastra as due to small particle size and effective in small doses rasa aushadhies can be considered as nano medicines which to be supported with a  relevant study .

Thus rasa aushadhies have become a part of discussion world wide . but one of the biggest hindrance that comes on the way of preparing them is its difficult  methods of preparation.

Difficult traditional procedures like kupipakva, bhasmikarana etc. requires more man power as well as time ,money, energy investments which at times becomes difficult for small scale production of those medicines by vaidyas them selves .Thus arises need for few changes in the traditional procedures of preparing medicines.thus, here is an effort to introduce some altered procedures to prepare most commonly used drugs such as kukkutanda twaka bhasma.

Materials and methods: genuine medicines were  prepared  as mentioned below by slight moderated methods  which makes its manufacturing procedure very simple.Also, by practicing these methods the cost of production, time and man power decreased considerably.

1.Preparation of kukkutanda twaka bhasma :  In Ayurveda sara sangraha its preparation is mentioned  by puta method.instead of that it was done by roasting method .

Detail procedure: soak Kukkutanda twak powder in butter milk for 8 hours and then wash it with warm water . add kumara swarasa to it and triturate it till it form homogenous mixture and then transfer it to a kadhai kept over flame and roast it till it form dry amorphous powder.once it is ompletely dried over flame transfer it to khalva yantra for mardana till it forms fine powder.

Observation  and conclusion:

In this whole study it was observed that by adopting altered procedures for preparing rasa medicines , maximum hindrances which comes on the way of preparing them were eradicated.Also,by adopting those procedures a lot of time,money ,energy was conserved and also large quantity of medicines can be prepared with ease.

Thus, it can be concluded these altered procedures should be adopted for production as basic tests reveals that by adopting such methods the quality of medicine are not getting much affected and they can be prepared with ease and at cost effective price.