Ayurvedic formulation, vati kalpana – a review

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Vati kalpana occupies major part in Rasa shastra and bhaishajya kalpana also known as Ayurved therapeutics and it plays important role in clinical practice of Ayurveda owing to many advantages like easy administration, palatability, convenient form for dispensing and transportation. Vati usually prepared with the combination of kashtoushadhi dravya churna , Bhasma, Shudha rasa and uparasa, Sadharana rasa, Guda, Sharkara, Guggulu, Jala, Swarasa, Mutra etc. drug combination, it may be sagni and niragni also. It was first mentioned by Acharya Sharangadhara who elaborately described about Vati kalpana as separate chapter in Sharangadhara samhita. Keywords: vati, sagni, niragni INTRODUCTION Among the Causative factors, symptoms, and Remedy, to rescue people from miseries such as various diseases Aushadha plays a very important role by pacifying the doshas which are in imbalance state. Description of Aushadha and its various ways of formulations is dealt in detail in Rasashastra and Bhaishajya kalpana. Although the glimpses of Rasa drugs and different kalpana is found in various parts of different samhitas, Acharya Sharangadhar of 13 thcentury AD was the 1 stperson who explainedin detail about Bhaishajya kalpana in Sharangadhara samhita He explained various kalpanas like swarasa, kalka, kwatha, hima and phanta which are having different appearance and can be used in different disease conditions, Vati is such a formulation to which he kept chapter in madhyama khanda in which he explained about vati paryaya, and general method of preparation of vati 1 and various vati’s Materials and methods Classical text books, compiled text books and Journals were referred for the review INTERNATIONAL AYURVEDIC MEDICAL JOURNAL International Ayurvedic Medical Journal, ( ISSN: 2320 5091) (June, 2017) 5(6) AYURVEDIC FORMULATION, VATI KALPANA – A REVIEW K.S.Manjunatha 1 , Shankar Gowda 2 , M.S.Doddamani 3 1 2 ndyr PG Scholar, 2 Guide, Professor, 3 HOD,Dept. Of RS & BK T.G.A.M.C Ballari, Karnataka, India Email: drksmanjunath 14@gmail.com ABSTRACT Vati kalpana occupies major part in Rasa shastra and bhaishajya kalpana also known as Ayurved therapeutics and it plays important role in clinical practice of Ayurveda owing to many advantages like easy administration, palatability, convenient form for dispensing and transportation. Vati usually prepared with the combination of kashtoushadhi dravya churna , Bhasma, Shudha rasa and uparasa, Sadharana rasa, Guda, Sharkara, Guggulu, Jala, Swarasa, Mutra etc. drug combination, it may be sagni and niragni also. It was first mentioned by Acharya Sharangadhara who elaborately described about Vati kalpana as separate chapter in Sharangadhara samhita. Keywords: vati, sagni, niragni INTRODUCTION Among the Causative factors, symptoms, and Remedy, to rescue people from miseries such as various diseases Aushadha plays a very important role by pacifying the doshas which are in imbalance state. Description of Aushadha and its various ways of formulations is dealt in detail in Rasashastra and Bhaishajya kalpana. Although the glimpses of Rasa drugs and different kalpana is found in various parts of different samhitas, Acharya Sharangadhar of 13 thcentury AD was the 1 stperson who explainedin detail about Bhaishajya kalpana in Sharangadhara samhita He explained various kalpanas like swarasa, kalka, kwatha, hima and phanta which are having different appearance and can be used in different disease conditions, Vati is such a formulation to which he kept chapter in madhyama khanda in which he explained about vati paryaya, and general method of preparation of vati 1 and various vati’s Materials and methods Classical text books, compiled text books and Journals were referred for the review INTERNATIONAL AYURVEDIC MEDICAL JOURNAL International Ayurvedic Medical Journal, ( ISSN: 2320 5091) (June, 2017) 5(6) AYURVEDIC FORMULATION, VATI KALPANA – A REVIEW K.S.Manjunatha 1 , Shankar Gowda 2 , M.S.Doddamani 3 1 2 ndyr PG Scholar, 2 Guide, Professor, 3 HOD,Dept. Of RS & BK T.G.A.M.C Ballari, Karnataka, India Email: drksmanjunath 14@gmail.com ABSTRACT Vati kalpana occupies major part in Rasa shastra and bhaishajya kalpana also known as Ayurved therapeutics and it plays important role in clinical practice of Ayurveda owing to many advantages like easy administration, palatability, convenient form for dispensing and transportation. Vati usually prepared with the combination of kashtoushadhi dravya churna , Bhasma, Shudha rasa and uparasa, Sadharana rasa, Guda, Sharkara, Guggulu, Jala, Swarasa, Mutra etc. drug combination, it may be sagni and niragni also. It was first mentioned by Acharya Sharangadhara who elaborately described about Vati kalpana as separate chapter in Sharangadhara samhita. Keywords: vati, sagni, niragni INTRODUCTION Among the Causative factors, symptoms, and Remedy, to rescue people from miseries such as various diseases Aushadha plays a very important role by pacifying the doshas which are in imbalance state