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.

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

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.

Physico-chemical parameters

Refractive index at 40 degree	1.465 to 1.465
Weight per ml at 400 degree	0.930 g to 0.940 g
Saponification value	180 to 195
Iodine value	100 to 120
Acid value	Not more than 4
Peroxide value	Not more than 5