A CONCEPTUAL REVIEW OF LITERATURE OF PHARMACEUTICAL ACTION OF SHILAJATU
Dr. Pratibha Prakash Kharat*
ABSTRACT
Rasa Shastra, an offshoot of Ayurveda popular from medieval period, mostly deals with therapeutic utilization of metals and minerals, from Vedic period to Samhita period there was less use of herbo mineral drugs but, from the period of Nagarjuna compounds of herbo-mineral drugs are used profusely. Entire literature on Rasa Shastra shows that the subject covers the entire field of inorganic pharmaceutical preparation like metallics, non metallics and organometallic compounds of Ayurvedic materia medica, this alchemy, mainly deals with the use of metals, minerals, gemstones and their processing.
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