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Vidhangaadi Guggulu vati is a preparation made with the ingredients in the Formulation Composition given below with Guggulu as the basic ingredient.
Contents
Formulation composition
| Vi·a´ga API | Embelia ribes | Fr. | 60 g |
| Triphal¡ | |||
| a. Har¢tak¢ API | Terminalia chebula | P. | 20 g |
| b. Bibh¢taka API | Terminalia belerica | P. | 20 g |
| c. Ëmalak¢ API | Emblica officinalis | P. | 20 g |
| VyoÀa | |||
| a. áu¸¶h¢ API | Zingiber officinale | Rz. | 20 g |
| b. Marica API | Piper nigrum | Fr. | 20 g |
| c. Pippal¢ API | Piper longum | Fr. | 20 g |
| Guggulu API - áuddha | Commiphora wightii | O. R. | 180 g |
| Sarpi (Gogh¤ta API) | Clarified butter from cow milk | – | QS |
Method of preparation
- Take all the ingredients of the pharmacopoeial quality.
- Treat Guggulu to prepare Guggulu - shuddha.
- Wash, clean, dry the ingredients numbered 1 to 3 of the formulation composition, powder separately and pass through 180 µm I. S. sieve (sieve number 85) to obtain fine powder and mix them all to a homogeneous mixture.
- Crush weighed quantity of shuddha-Guggulu, add fine powder of other mixed ingredients to it and pound well. Add Ghrta to an extent required to facilitate the pounding and continue pounding till a semi-solid uniformly mixed mass of suitable plasticity is obtained.
- Expel the mass through vati machine to obtain cylindrical threads and cut the vatis to a desired weight.
- Roll the vatis on flat surface to round them by circular motion of palm covered with a glove and smeared with Gh¤ta or use suitable mechanical device.[1]
Description
- Spherical pills, black in colour with agreeable odour, bitter taste.
Storage
- Store in a cool place in tightly closed containers, protected from light and moisture.
Therapeutic uses
- Dushta vrana (non-healing ulcer), Apaci (chronic lymphadenopathy/scrofula), Meha (excessive flow of urine), Kustha (diseases of skin), Nadivrana (sinus).
Dose
- 12 g daily in divided doses.
Anupāna
- Triphala kvatha, shigru kvatha, Madhu, Ushnodaka
Physico-chemical parameters
| Total Ash | Not more than 6 per cent |
| Acid-insoluble ash | Not more than 2 per cent |
| Alcohol-soluble extractive | Not less than 23 per cent |
| Water-soluble extractive | Not less than 30 per cent |
| Loss on drying | Not more than 13 per cent |
| pH (1% aqueous solution) | 3.3 to 3.5 |
References
- ↑ THE AYURVEDIC PHARMACOPOEIA OF INDIA, PART-II, VOLUME-III, page no 50.
