Liquid media’s in Bhavana Samskara: A pharmaceutico-therapeutic prospect

Abstract

Bhavana is a wet triturition process and also a size reduction technology, frequently used in Ayurvedic pharmaceutics. It has multi-dimentional pharmaceutical and therapeutic implications. In the present review, data mining from available, screened Ayurvedic literature revealed use of various types of liquid media of plant, animal and mineral origin for Bhavana. The paper is a petite attempt to compile a variety of liquid media used in Bhavana especially in context to Pharmaceutics and Therapeutics in brief.