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Punarnavā Guggulu
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Punarnavā Guggulu Vati is a preparation made with the ingredients in Formulation composition given below with Guggulu as the basic ingredient.
Contents
Formulation composition
| Punarnavā mūla (Raktapunarnav¡ API) | Boerhaavia diffusa | Rt. | 4.800 kg |
| Rubūkamūla (Eraṇḍa API) | Ricinus communis | Rt. | 4.800 kg |
| Śuṇṭhī API | Zingiber officinale | Rz. | 768 g |
| Jala for decoction | Water | 32 l | |
| reduced to | 4 l | ||
| Kauśika (Guggulu API-Śuddha) | Commiphora wightii | O.R. | 864 g |
| Eraṇḍa Taila API | Ricinus communis | Sd. Oil | 192 ml |
| Trivṛt API | Ipomoea turpethum | Rt. | 240 g |
| Nikumbha (Dantī API) | Baliospermum montanum | Rt. | 48 g |
| Guḍūcī API | Tinospora cordifolia | St. | 96 g |
| Harītakī API | Terminalia chebula | P. | 96 g |
| Bibhītaka API | Terminalia belerica | P. | 96 g |
| Āmalakī API | Emblica officinalis | P. | 96 g |
| Śuṇṭhī API | Zingiber officinale | Rz. | 96 g |
| Marica API | Piper nigrum | Fr. | 96 g |
| Pippalī API | Piper longum | Fr. | 96 g |
| Sindhūttha (Saindhava API) | 96 g | ||
| Citraka API | Plumbago zeylanica | Rt. | 96 g |
| Bhallāta (Bhallātaka API -Śuddha) | Semicarpus anacardium | Fr. | 96 g |
| Viḍaṅga API | Embelia ribes | Fr. | 96 g |
| Mākṣika dhātu cūrṅa (Bhasma API) | 12 g | ||
| Punarnavā (Rakta-Punarnavā API) | Boerhaavia diffusa | Rt. | 48 g |
Method of preparation
- Take all the ingredients of the pharmacopoeial quality.
- Wash, dry and powder the ingredients number 7 to 19 of the formulation composition separately and pass through sieve number 85, weigh them separately in the required quantities and mix.
- Crush weighed quantity of Guggulu-Śuddha.
- Wash, dry and powder the ingredients number 1 to 3 of the formulation composition separately and pass through sieve number 40. Soak the coarse powder mixture in 8 times of potable water for 12 h.
- Gently heat the mixture to boil and continue the boiling to reduce the volume of the mixture to half of its original volume.
- Stop the boiling and filter while still warm through a muslin cloth.
- Boil the filtrate (Kvātha) in an iron vessel. Add Śuddha-Guggulu to Kvātha and concentrate to Guḍapāka (semi-solid) condition.[1]
Description
- Blackish brown spherical pills with pleasant odour, salty and bitter in taste.
Storage
- Store in a cool place in tightly closed container, protect from light and moisture.
Therapeutic uses
- Vātarakta (Gout), Vṛddhiroga (Hydrocoel disease), Gṛdhrasī (Sciatica), Jaṅghā-ūru-pṛṣṭha-trika-sthāna and vastigata śūla (Pain in urinary bladder), Āmavāta (Rheumatism).
Dose:2-3 g daily in divided doses.
Dose
- 15 – 30 ml orally with equal amount of water after meals twice a day.
Anupāna
- Water.
Physico-chemical parameters
| Loss on drying | Not more than 12 per cent |
| Total ash | Not more than 15 per cent |
| Acid-insoluble ash | Not more than 4 per cent |
| Alcohol-soluble extractive | Not less than 10 per cent |
| Water-soluble extractive | Not less than 45 per cent |
| pH (1% aqueous solution) | 4.7 to 5.0 |
References
- ↑ THE AYURVEDIC PHARMACOPOEIA OF INDIA, PART-II, VOLUME-II, page no 176.
