| These are the
Kalpana (preparations) found in Ashtaang hridyam.
Listing from Ashtaang
hridyam (alphabetically)
- Aashchyotanam (ophthalmic preparation),
- Abhavgahanam (massage),
- Abhayanjanam,
- Agad (anti dote for poisons)
- Avaleha (confectionary based preparation),
- Basti (suppositories),
- Bhallataktailpatanam (oil of a herb),
- Bhasma (calcinated ash),
- Choorna (powder)
- Dadhi (Curd),
- Dhana (grains)
- Dhoopanam (fumigation, exposure to sunlight)
- Dhoomrapaan (medicated smoking),
- Gandoosh (gargle),
- Ghirtapaak (processed ghee),
- Ghrita (ghee),
- Guda (jaggery preparation)
- Gutika (pill),
- Ikshurasa (sugar cane juice),
- Kalka (paste),
- Kaval (gargle)
- Khalkurchika (hard part of boiled butter),
- Khandava (crude sugar),
- Kilat,
- Kshaar kalpana (alkali preparation),
- Laja (roasted rice)
- Lepa (embrocating or body paint),
- Maansarasa (nonveg soup preparation),
- Madhya (liquor),
- Manajanam (tooth powder),
- Mand (starch of rice),
- Mansa (flesh /meat),
- Marsha,
- Nasya (Inhalation based therapy),
- Navaneet(butter),
- Odanam (cooked rice),
- Paanak (squash like preparation),
- Parisheka (dripping hot or cold water),
- Peya (liquid diet),
- Phanit (thick boiled semi solid sugarcane juice like honey),
- Phant (hot infusion),
- Pinyak (crude butter),
- Pishiti (paste of hard minerals and gemstones with rosewater),
- Pradeha (powder based medicine for embrocating or body paint),
- Prataimarsha (inhalation preparation),
- Pruthuk (thick half fried bread- like paratha),
- Puratanghrita (old ghrita),
- Putpaak (ophthalmic preparation),
- Quath (decoction)
- Rasala (squash like preparation),
- Rasayanam (life style and various combination of method that are used as rejuvenating and vitality providers),
- Raskriya (confectionary like preparation),
- Sahtdhautghritam (ghee washed 100 times),
- Saktu (roasted flour),
- Seka (ophthalmic preparation),
- Shakam (vegetable),
- Sharkara (squash like preparation),
- Sheetarasa (cold infusion),
- Shrita (decoction),
- Swarasa (extract juice),
- Swedanam (sweating),
- Tailpaak (oil based preparation),
- Takra (curd milk),
- Tandulodakanam (rice with more liquid content),
- Tarpan (satisfying agents),
- Upnaah (poultice preparation),
- Ushnaodakam (hot water),
- Utardnam,
- Varti (long shaped pill),
- Vatak (big sized pill),
- Vati (pill/tablet),
- Veshvaar (combination of species),
- Vilepi (liquid diet),
- Yoosha (dal like preparation from Indian Cuisine).
References- Ashtaang Hridya (classical text)- Chaukhambha Surbahrti Publications
<< Back to From Ayurveda Main Page |
