Learn Ayurveda Medicine Preparation

Medicine is the best companion for a physician in his medical practice and journey to a newbie intern to an experienced physician. the success of the medical profession depends on the improvement in the patients, and medicines play a very crucial role in clinical improvement. Many Ayurvedic pharmaceutical companies prepare medicines on a commercial scale, but it lacks one important thing that is there in the medicine prepared by the physician himself. This ingredient is crucial in your success, popularity and legacy.

Trituration is a frequently employed process in Ayurvedic Pharmaceutics. Various purification, calcination processes include Trituration as its part. Kharaliya Rasayana, means herbal and herbo-mineral medicines prepared in mortar and pestle are based on the trituration process. Trituration/ Bhavana is the process of grinding solids and liquid together, where particles are micronized by wet-grinding. Trituration increases the potency, reduces the dose of herbal medicine. Trituration incorporates properties of herbs into metallo-mineral medicine. Let us learn the secrets of perfect Bhavana in medicine preparation.

Proper trituration is important in the preparation of Ayurvedic medicines. The level of micronization, incorporation of herbal content into mineral content, improvisation in potency and medicine properties of the medicine depends on how the trituration is performed. In this lesson, you learn how does trituration work with herbal and mineral materials?

The commercial aspect of the medical practice and its ethics are well established since ancient time. When a patient purchases medicines prepared by pharmaceutical companies, he enters an entirely different realm of pharmaceutical commerce that is beyond the scope of a physician. But when a physician makes his own medicine, that is fortunately legally allowed for an Ayurveda physician he can better use the resources for the patients. The patient can get the best quality of medicine at a considerably lower cost. Also, a physician can earn his own commercials with all medical ethics.

Kharal or mortar and pestle is the most essential tool to prepare Ayurvedic medicines on a small scale. Kharal is costly, and usually, we purchase them once in a lifetime. Selection of a wrong Kharal is not only a hurdle in proper processing of medicine but also it may add the stone powder to the medicine. In this lesson, you shall learn the characteristics of ideal Kharal and to select proper Kharal as per your medicines.

Most of the Kharaliya Rasayana are in the form of pills. Making proper pills is a skill. In this lesson, we shall learn to prepare pills and the intermediate steps that one must follow to get uniforms, well finished and professional-looking pills even without investing much time, money or skills.

Laghu Sutshekhar Rasa is a commonly required medicine in general practice. It is cheap medicine with great utility. In this lesson, we shall learn the ingredients, method of preparation and therapeutic utility of the Laghu Sutshekhar Rasa

Tribhuvan Kirti Rasa is one of the commonly required medicine in general Ayurvedic practice. This medicine contains toxic ingredients, so one must know how to prepare this medicine so as to get maximum therapeutic benefits and minimum risk of toxicity. In this lesson, we shall learn the ingredients, method of preparation and therapeutic uses of Tribhuvan Kirti Rasa.

Nagarjunabhra Rasa is an excellent example of medicine where the efficacy of the medicine is directly dependant on the excellence in the method of preparation. This kind of medicine must be made by a physician himself, as the commercial pharmaceutical companies tend to cut short the processes in order to reduce production cost. In this lesson, we shall learn the ingredients, method of preparation and therapeutic utility of Nagarjunabhra Rasa

Pills can be made using various materials as a binding agent.

Jaggery, Sugar, Honey, Guggulu are some of the examples.

Pills can be made by two methods- Hot method and the cold method.

Hot method: jaggery etc are melted on heat and powders are mixed into it.

Cold Method: Jaggery erc is pounded several times to make it soft

The rollable soft dough is then rolled into pills.

Phalavarti, or Medicated Herbal Suppository is

one of the examples of cold processed elongated pills.

It is self-preserved and has a shelf life of one year.

In better packaging, the shelf life may extend up to three years.

While applied, it is smeared with Ghee or castor oil

Lubricated Phalavari is inserted in the anus to induce purge.

Phalavarti can be prepared of various lengths and thicknesses.

8 MM thickness is suited to most of people.

While inserted, it melts with the moisture and  temperature in the rectum and releases the contents slowly

Various pills containing Guggul can be made with this method

For example- Sinhanad Guggul for rheumatoid arthritis.

Constipation may be very troublesome sometimes. In patients with heart disease, constipation may exhaust someone to such an extent that it may result in chest pain and immense discomfort that may result in hospitalization. Even for patients with piles, constipation may become troublesome and may result in bleeding. Phalavarti is a suppository intended to be used per anally to relieve constipation. It is to be used under the medical supervision of a qualified Ayurveda physician. This suppository usually relieves constipation within 30 to 60 minutes of per rectal administration. This suppository is comprised of Ayurvedic herbs like Madanphal, Pippali, Sarshap, Yavakshar, Kushtha, Vacha and jaggery. Dr. Pranit Ambulkar, MD, PhD (Ayurveda) demonstrates how the Phalavarti is prepared.