Abstract

A COMPARATIVE PHARMACEUTICAL STUDY OF RASAPUSHPA PREPARED BY TWO DIFFERENT FORMULATIONS.

Dr. Sandesh Chavan*, Dr. Sudhir Deshpande and Dr. Shriram Savrikar

Abstract

Rasapushpa is a sagni, nirgandha moorchana (without sulphur) of Mercury prepared by adopting bahirdhuma procedure. For the preparation of Rasapushpa, pure mercury along with equal quantities of pure Kasisa (ferrous sulphate) & Saindhava lavana (Rock Salt) in kupipakwa method are used & other formulation which contains same ingredients mentioned above, along with pure Kankshi (double potash of allum) by Damaruyantra method are mentioned. Based on use of Gandhaka (sulphur) in the preparation of Kupipakwa Rasayana, they are called as sagandha & nirgandha kalpanas. The two important nirgandha preparations mentioned in Rasa literature are Rasapushpa & Rasakarpoora. Not much research work has done in this direction. Hence for present research work, Rasapushpa was selected as trial drug on virtue of its importance in therapeutics as well as skills involved in its pharmaceutical preparations.

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