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ABSTRACT

Ayurveda system of medicine has their own pharmaceutics with number of different dosage forms. All dosage forms have their unique speciality of preparation method as well as clinical use. One of them is sneha paka, which includes majority medicated taila and ghrita.  Ghrita have its special quality named yogvahi, due to this in Ayurvedic pharmaceutics wide range of medicated ghrita is described to use internal in many disease conditions. Panchtikata ghrita, mahatikta ghrita, tikta shatpal ghrita, tiktadi ghrita, amruta ghrita, kantakri ghrita, vasadi ghrita, patoladi ghrita etc are prepared with major portion of tikta dravya but with the changing in ratio, changing in a kalka dravya and changing in combination of these tikta dravya these all ghrita are used in different disease condition. This modification is done according to guna of each individual dravya, their action on dosha, dhatu, mala and their combined effect with ghrita in samprapti vighatan of particular diseases.

KEYWORDS

Panchtikta Dravya, Ghrita Paka, Yogratnakar