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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.

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

  1. THE AYURVEDIC PHARMACOPOEIA OF INDIA, PART-II, VOLUME-II, page no 176.