Rasa Shastra is the ancient science of Indian alchemy. At present Rasa Shastra is included as a part of Ayurveda pharmaceutical studies in India, since the medicinal properties of mercury including the other metals are being explored for their capabilities on many incurable diseases. Globally a lot of Ayurvedic medicines have been blamed as a risk for health, for containing heavy metals like mercury, lead, arsenic etc. This present work is an attempt to investigate, a traditionally made mercurial medicine called Samirpannaga Rasa, prepared from mercury, sulphur, minerals like arsenic...

Ayurveda is the ancient medical science of India. Many herbal, mineral and metallic drugs are being successfully used in treatment of various ailments. Diamond (Hiraka) in a form of medicine sounds strange, but incinerated precious stones (Ratna Bhasma) has important role in Ayurvedic medicines. Medicines made from Diamond are used by some Ayurvedic physicians in various Cancers; and it has reported encouraging results. To evaluate the clinical efficacy of Hiraka Bhasma (Ayurvedic Diamond preparation) in Carcinoma, clinical study with pre-diagnosed patients of carcinoma was carried out; and...

Ayurveda is the ancient medical science of India. Many herbal, mineral and metallic drugs are being successfully used in treatment of various ailments. Tin (Vanga) in incinerated and processed form is being used in Ayurvedic medicines since thousands years. Vangeshwara Rasa and Swarnavanga are such popular Ayurvedic medicines made of Tin. Now day various queries regarding safety of metallic Ayurvedic drugs is being raised by various countries. Though Vangeshwara Rasa and Swarnavanga are time tested harmless, there is no documented data of safety and toxicity study of these drugs. This study...