About rasa medicine : Rasa is the branch of the aurveda science, which deals with the preparetion of rasa medicine, Nagarjun is the founder of the rasa shastra who uses different preparation of parad. A number of pharmaceutical preparations of rasa medicine along with murcur, sulphur, menerals and poisonous substances is included.
Minerals purification process :
Verious methods-systems are used in the puriphication of rasa-medicine (vikha, iron, abhrak, copper, silver, mercurry, iron-oxide,godanti etc.). These rasa-medicine are prepard by the process like triturating, boiling in cows urin or milk, soaking in herbals juces kipping thesubstance in butter-milk (kanji) parad (murcurry) or gold preparation (sworna bhasma) requries certain herbal substance or juce. these substance require mani purification process before theire final stage.
Uses in yantras : Puta, musa, plates, bowel, fire are important instruments. Musa is a pot, which is useful to prepare the bhasma. Fire is important for heating, drying, frying, melting, burning,smoking, cleansing,, distillation inorder to prepare rasa-bhasma(powder) medicine.
Kinds of rasa medicines : Aurveda therapiutic purposes to uselikes gems metals and stones. Rasa medicines contains to effectiveremedical value.
a. Abharak (oxide of mica) : It is useful in oxidation of metals the resulting bhasma (powder). The lungs and rasadhatuto uses an excellant rejuvenetor. Other also useful in asthama and bronchitis.