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Moolaka Ksaara is a powder preparation made with the ingredients in the Formulation composition given below.

Formulation composition

Method of preparation

  • Take ingredients of pharmacopoeial quality.
  • Collect mature Mūlaka, wash and cut into small pieces and dry completely. Burn to ash (Bhasma).
  • Add 6 parts of water to the Bhasma, stir well and keep overnight. 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 in to a stainless steel vessel and heat to evaporate the water. Collect ksāra 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 salty; freely soluble in water.

Storage

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

Therapeutic uses

  • Mūtrak¨cchra (Dysuria), Aśmarī (Calculus), Gulma (Abdominal lump), Vātavikāra (disorders due to vata do¾a).

Dose

  • 1g daily in divided doses.

Anupāna

  • Water.

Physico-chemical parameters

Loss on drying Not more than 1 per cent
Acid-insoluble ash Not more than 1 per cent
pH (1% aqueous solution) 10 to 11

References

  1. THE AYURVEDIC PHARMACOPOEIA OF INDIA, PART-II, VOLUME-1, page no 108.