Practical view of Yavakshara preparation

Abstract

Main aim of Ayurveda is to maintain heath of healthy person and make free from diseases to diseased person. This aim of Ayurveda is proved by many acharya by applying ayurvedic fundamentals. One of them is ayurvedic medicine. Which plays important role in ayurvedic treatment. Acharya focus on preparation of herbal drugs along with the quality of the drug. This drug has an appropriate qualities and significant result on particular diseases. Kshara is one of important the ayurvedic formulation which is used in various diseases. It has a unique quality than other drugs. It is an alkali preparation of either by single herb or multiple herb. By its unique qualities many kruchhra sadhya diseases are treated. Now a day we see that the ayurvedic formulations are not much effective on the diseases. The causes are many more such as the low efficacy of medicinal plant , wrong method of preparation etc. available market preparation are not much effective and many more products are fail to maintain quality of the drug as per ayurvedic text.  If we make an ayurvedic formulation according to ayurvedic text with standard operating procedure by maintaining quality of the drug we can get significant effects on some particular diseases. In this paper we explain one of the standard procedure of Yavakshara preparation according to Sushrut Samhita. total estimation of how much raw material used, time require to prepare yavakshara, how much loss of raw drug and material and method of yavakshara preparation is explained.