Vātāri Guggulu

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Vataari Guggulu Vati is a preparation made with the ingredients in the Formulation composition given below with Guggulu as the basic ingredient

Method of preparation

• Take all the ingredients of the pharmacopoeial quality.
• Wash, dry and powder the ingredients numbered 4 to 6 of the formulation composition separately and pass through sieve number 85. Powder shuddha Gandhaka to a fine powder and pass through sieve number 85.
• Weigh all of them separately in the required quantities and mix.
• Crush weighed quantity of Guggulu-shuddha, add fine powder of other mixed ingredients to it and pound well.
• Add Eranda Taila in small quantity at regular intervals for smooth pounding and pound to a semisolid uniformly mixed mass of suitable plasticity.
• Expel the mass through Vati machine fitted with a suitable die 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 Eranda Taila or use suitable mechanical device.

Description

• Spherical pills, greyish-black in colour with agreeable odour and bitter taste.