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Metals or Metallic or Chemical Rasayanas

Published On: June 15, 2009, 5:30 am
By Staff Writer

 

Metals or Metallic or Chemical Rasayanas
‘Metals in purified form are wonder drugs’



Ayurveda has always been using various metals, jewels and pearls as medicines for certain deficiencies and diseases. These elements are turned into calaxes or bhasmas for administration in different diseases. Calxes of gold, silver, copper and iron are quite popular.
Jewels or Ratnas including precious and semiprecious stones are used as drugs. As they have therapeutic properties.

 

 

 

Major Jewels are also called as Maharatnas.

Minor Jewels are called jas Upratnas.

 

 

Maha Ratnas:
Diamond-hirak
Ruby
Manikya
Pearls      
Mukta
Topaz         
Pushparaga
Sapphire
Neelam
Emrald
Panna
Cat’s eye  
Vaidurya
Zircon 
Gomedak
Caulk       
Vidruma
Parada or Mercury is one of the main ingredients used in formulations of Rasayana Shastra.

Upa Ratnas:
Sun stone
Suryakant
Moon stone  
Chandrakanta
Crystal  
Sphatik

 

Human body contains some Chemical elements, also called as trace elements. Nine such elements are well recognized. Cobalt, copper, iodine, iron, magnese, molybelenum, selenium and zinc are some of them.
Allopathic medicines contain metals in the form of Carbonyl iron, ferrous sulphate, cobalt powder, cobalt sulphate, Cobalt oxide, cobalt hydroxide, magnese, iodine etc.

 

 

 

 

 

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