European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DRY VASA LEAF EXTRACTION PREPARED BY HIMA KALPANA AND KWATHA KALPANA

*Dr. Vikram Singh Bagari

ABSTRACT

Bhaishajya Kalpana, the Ayurvedic pharmacology is the science that describes the classic and new herbal drug dosage forms. Swarasa, the juice is considered the basest dosage form and it is prepared by Two different methods based on the drugs quality. Vasa, the Adhatoda vasicais a renowned pneumo-curative drug and it juice is prescribed to be extracted by a heating process. If fresh drug is not available than we can use dry vasa leaf for preparation of different swaras kalpana. This study is done to comparatively evaluate the effective method of extraction of vasa swarasa hima & kwatha kalpana (but both are not a swarasa kalpana) to extraction, by quantitative estimation of its active principle called vasicine. Three batches of vasa swarasa was prepared by both the methods, samples were collected by simple random sampling method and vasicine was estimated by high performance thin layer chromatography. The Kwatha (Phanta) method yielded quantitatively more swarasa and the vasicine is also comparatively more than Hima method. Hence Kwatha proves effective in extraction of a more potent Kwath vasa swarasa.

Keywords: Bhaishajya Kalpana, Adhatoda vasica.