PREPARATION AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF MANDOOR PARPATI

Abstract

The name of Ahcarya Chakradatta will always be remembered with gratefulness by all physicians as he started using amalgamation of Metallic medicines with herbal medicines for e.g. Parpati. Parapati is an important preparatory method which mostly acts on Grahani. There are number of Parpatis like Ras parpati, Panchamrut parpati, Tamra parpati, Kshar parpati, Gagan parpati, Loh parpati, Bol parpati etc. are mentioned in Rasashastriy samhitas. Mandoor parpati is prepared from Mandoor bhasma. Which acts on Grahani as well as can enhances Raktavardhak property of Mandoor bhasma explained in Siddhayogsangraha but somehow its get ignored by Ayurvedic physicians so here detailed study related with preparatory method and physicochemical properties of Mandoor parpati for the first time has been carried out.