A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SVARNA BHASMA PREPARED BY TRADITIONAL PUTA METHOD AND FURNACE METHOD TO ASSESS ITS PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES

Abstract

In the field of Rasashastra, bhasma plays an important role being having low dosage, absence of unpleasant taste and rapid action. Among all the bhasmas, Svarna bhasma is considered as a superior most being the best immunomodulator and being used in various medicinal formulations. In present study, Svarna bhasma has been prepared using traditional puta method as well as by using Furnace. In traditional Puta method 25 No. of puta were required to obtain the bhasma possessing all the qualities. Temperature pattern recorded during traditional Puta method was applied in Furnace ^{method. Svarna bhasma obtained from traditional Puta method shows mixed phases of AuS and AuO and the percentage of Au was found 98.69 while the bhasma obtained from Furnace method showed the structure of AuOhaving percentage of Au 98.85.}