PRELIMINARY STUDIES OF SOME MARKETED AYURVEDIC PREPARATIONS OF ASAVA’S AND ARISHTA’S

Abstract

Ayurveda is a science of life. Ayurveda is considered as the Upaveda of Atharvaveda which deals with different type of herbs, plants, the anatomy
and physiology of different organs of body and the principles of treatment of diseases. Ayurveda is an oldest system of medicine which native to
India. Asava and Arishta’s are liquid preparations containing self generated alcohol. Thus contain water soluble as well as alcohol soluble substances
of the drugs. Asava and Arishta’s are differing from each other owing to their difference in method of preparation. In the current study, an attempt
was made to evaluate some ayurvedic preparations like Asava and arishta available in market. The preparations were evaluated for various parameters
like estimation of alcohol content, P
H values, total solid content, density, surface tension and viscosity of Asava and Arishta’s. It was observed that an
establishing quality and standard parameters like alcohol level, P
H, acid values and other components of all these preparations are highly significant.