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Dhānvantara Taila
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Dhanvantara Taila is a liquid preparation made with the ingredients in the Formulation composition given below with Tila Taila as the basic ingredient.
Formulation composition
Method of preparation
- Take all ingredients of Pharmacopoeial quality.
- Wash and dry all the herbal raw materials thoroughly.
- Treat Tila taila to prepare Mūrchita Taila (Appendix 6.2.8.3).
- Pulverize the dried Balā mūla (kvātha dravya) to a coarse powder, add specified amounts of water, heat and reduce the volume to one eighth. Filter with muslin cloth to obtain Balā kvātha.
- Pulverize the dried ingredients numbered 4 to 16 (kvātha dravya) to coarse powder, add specified quantity of water, heat and reduce the volume to one eighth. Filter with muslin cloth to obtain kvātha[1]
Description
- A medicated oil, redish brown in color with pleasant odour.
Storage
- Store in a cool place in tightly closed containers, protected from light and moisture.
Therapeutic uses
- Vāta roga (diseases due to Vāta dosha), Pak¾avadha (Hemiplegia), Sarvānga vāta (Quadriplegia), Dhātu kshaya (tissue wasting), Sūtikā roga (Puerperal diseases) and Bāla
roga (diseases of children). External application for Abhyanga.
Dose
- Internally 6 to 12 ml daily in divided doses; as well as external application Q.S
Anupāna
- Water.
References
- ↑ THE AYURVEDIC PHARMACOPOEIA OF INDIA, PART-II, VOLUME-1, page no 119.
