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Palāśa Kṣāra

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Palāśa Kṣāra is a white alkaline preparation made with the ingredients in the Formulation composition given below.

Formulation composition

Palāśa API-Bhasma Butea monosperma Pl. 1 part
Jala API Water 6 parts

Method of preparation

  • Take all ingredients of pharmacopoeial quality.
  • Cut Palasha into small pieces and dry completely. Burn to ash (Bhasma).
  • Add 6 parts of water to Bhasma, stir well and keep over night.
  • Next morning decant the clear liquid and filter through a three-layered muslin cloth.
  • Repeat the filtering process till a colourless filtrate is obtained. Transfer filtered material to a stainless steel vessel and heat to evaporate the water.
  • Collect kshara deposited as flakes from the bottom of the vessel and grind to a fine powder.
  • Pack it in tightly closed containers to protect from light and moisture[1]

Description

  • Fine powder, passing through sieve number 100; hygroscopic, odourless, taste saline; freely soluble in water.

Storage

  • Store in a cool place in tightly closed containers, protected from light and moisture.

Therapeutic uses

  • Agnimāndya (Digestive impairment), Gulma (Abdominal lump), Plīhyakṛdvṛddhi (Spleno-hepatomegaly), Mūtrakrcchra (Dysuria), Aśamarī (Calculus), Śarkarā (Gravel in urine), Grahanī (Malabsorption syndrome), Ānāha (Distention of abdomen due to obstruction to passage of urine and stool), Vishūcikā (Gastro-enteritis with piercing pain).

Dose

  • ½ to 1 g daily in divided doses.

Anupāna

  • Warm water, Milk.

Physico-chemical parameters

Loss on drying at 1100 Not more than 6 per cent
Acid-insoluble ash Not more than 1 per cent
pH (10% aqueous solution) 10 to 12

References

  1. THE AYURVEDIC PHARMACOPOEIA OF INDIA, PART-II, VOLUME-1, page no 111.