World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

REVIEW OF MARANA WITH SPECIAL REFFERENCE TO YASHADA BHASMA

Dr. Mamta Biyani*, Dr. Ujwala A. Jadhao and Dr. Rajesh K. Ingole

ABSTRACT

Rasashastra is a part of Indian traditional system called Ayurveda. It deals with pharmacology and pharmaceutics of Ayurveda. It involves processing and therapeutic uses of metals and minerals. There are different methods of preparation of herbomineral drugs. The process of converting inorganic metal into the organic one which can be easily bioassemble with human body with the help of different trituration and heating procedure is called as Maran or Bhasmikaran. Yashada (Zinc) is one of the widely using rasa bhasma. Yashad bhasma is an effective medicine for treatment of Twacha vikar, Netra vikar, night blindness, Shwasa, Prameha etc. There are different procedures of Yashad bhasma nirman mentioned in ancient texts. So it is important to be reviewed which one is better for the preparation of gold standard Yashada bhasma as per textual references as well as modern standardization parameters. This work is the small effort for reviewing different texual methods of the preparation of Yashada Bhasma.

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