Parpati Kalpa: A Pharmaceutical Dosage Form

Contents: 1. Parpati Kalpa. 2. General procedure of preparation of Parpati. 3. Some modern concepts. 4. Some Ayurvedic concepts. 5. Parpati preparations. 

From the preface: Ayurveda is the only science which not only given the due importance to all the states of duug but also exploited them by utilizing all parts including the ashes. It is the earliest science which has given full freedom to design and develop wide variety of dosage forms depending on the requirement of the condition of the patient and the disease demands, by saying what ever the number of drug preparations mentioned in the classics are only small. It further has laid down so many guidelines for the design and develop the newer drug entities. Though the classical samhitas have made use of minerals and metals in the treatment but they concentrated more on herbal ingredients and less on minerals. These samhitas have documented a number of dosage forms specially herbal drugs based on five fundamental forms viz panchavidha kashaya kalpanas in their individual and compound forms.