Open AccessLiquid media’s in Bhavana Samskara: A pharmaceutico-therapeutic prospect
Author(s) -
Rohit Sharma,
PK Prajapati
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the journal of phytopharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2320-480X
DOI - 10.31254/phyto.2015.4109
Subject(s) - pharmaceutics , context (archaeology) , traditional medicine , biochemical engineering , engineering , pharmacology , medicine , biology , paleontology
Bhavana is a wet triturition process and also a size reduction technology, frequently used in Ayurvedic pharmaceutics. It has multi-dimentional pharmaceutical and therapeutic implications. In the present review, data mining from available, screened Ayurvedic literature revealed use of various types of liquid media of plant, animal and mineral origin for Bhavana. The paper is a petite attempt to compile a variety of liquid media used in Bhavana especially in context to Pharmaceutics and Therapeutics in brief.