Author:
Thakur Sudarshan K.,Rathi Bharat,Rathi Renu,Tak Anjna,Soni Manik
Abstract
Shilajeet is popular worldwide for its medicinal, anti-aging, aphrodisiac, and many other properties. However, it has a wide and long history of use, and its availability, identification, and characterization are some of the most difficult conundrums, even for the related traditional medicine experts on scientific parameters. Information about it is scattered in various classical texts and research publications. This review gives a detailed description from various sources about the natural origin of Shilajeet, its availability, collection, classification, identification, purity, and analysis criteria, classical organoleptic characteristics and classical qualitative tests, physicochemical characteristics, organic composition, and elemental composition. Further, the properties of Shilajeet, research scopes, and the need and purpose of working on this drug from Indian medicine have been discussed.
Publisher
Informatics Publishing Limited
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