Punarnavā Guggulu

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Punarnava Guggulu Vati is a preparation made with the ingredients in Formulation composition given below with Guggulu as the basic ingredient.

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-shuddha.
• 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 (Kvatha) in an iron vessel. Add shuddha-Guggulu to Kvatha and concentrate to Gudaapaka (semi-solid) condition.

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

• V¡tarakta (Gout), Vrddhiroga (hydrocoel disease), Grdhrasi (sciatica), Jadgha-Íru-Prshtha-Trika Sthana and Vastigata sula (pain in urinary bladder), Amavata (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