| Description | STUDIES ON IDENTIFICATION OF VAIKRANTA USED IN AYURVEDA, V. N. SHARMA, R.S. SINGH, A. V. ULABHAJE, AND S. P. SEN Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 005-U. P. India ABSTRACT: of the several of mineral used in Ayurvedic practice as Vaikranta, the most commonly used were procured from reputed Ayurvedic pharmacies all over India and those responding to physical characteristics of Vaikranta as mentioned in Ayurvedic texts were subjects to physical, chemical and spectral analysis X-ray diffraction study of Schorlite was undertaken to conform mineral constituents of the materials. Ancient Science of Life, Vol. V No.2, October 1981, Pages 146-154 |
