Jvalanala rasa
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| Kind | Traditional medicine |
|---|---|
| Part of the plant | Leaf |
| Also called | Jwalanala rasa |
| Language | Sanskrit |
| Country | India |
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| Recorded in | The Materia Medica of the Hindus (1877) |
| First recorded | 1877[1]: 240 |
| Still made | Not known |
Jvalanala rasa (jvālānala rasa) is a pill of Ayurveda in which fried bhang leaves, equal in weight to all the other ingredients, are compounded with mercury, sulphur, two alkalis, borax and spices. Uday Chandra Dutt gave its composition in 1877, for indigestion and loss of appetite with nausea and vomiting.[1]: 240 Swagata Tavhare and Rabinarayan Acharya count it among the Ayurvedic formulations in which bhaṅgā is a major ingredient.[2]: 61
Making jvalanala rasa
Dutt's recipe takes equal parts of yavakṣāra and sarjikākṣāra (which he glosses as impure carbonates of potash and soda), borax, mercury, sulphur, long pepper, black pepper, chavya and ginger. Fried leaves of Cannabis sativa are added equal in weight to all of them, with the root of Moringa pterygosperma at half the weight of the cannabis.[1]: 240
The ingredients are powdered and mixed, and the powder is soaked for three days in each of three fluids, a decoction or fresh juice of cannabis leaves, of the Moringa roots and of Plumbago rosea. It is then dried in the sun, roasted lightly and made into a pill mass with the juice of the leaves of Wedelia calendulacea (bhṛṅgarāja). The dose was about half a drachm, with honey.[1]: 240
Sources
Dutt's Materia Medica of the Hindus prints the Sanskrit text in a footnote.[1]: 240 In 1894 Abhilas Chandra Mukerjee, a Bengal excise officer, repeated Dutt's recipe almost word for word in his evidence to the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, citing the Bhāvaprakāśa.[3]
Tavhare and Acharya list Jwalanala Rasa for ajīrṇa, in a dose of four māṣa with jaggery and ginger, as a digestive (dīpana, pācana), citing the Bṛhat Nighaṇṭu Ratnākara.[2]: 61, 75
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Dutt, Udoy Chand (1877). The Materia Medica of the Hindus. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink. pp. 235–241 – via Wellcome Collection.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Tavhare, S.D.; Acharya, R. (2017). "Exploring the pharmaco-clinical view on Bhanga (Cannabis sativa Linn.): a classical unfamiliar portrayal". International Journal of Pharmaceutical & Biological Archives. 8 (6): 59–78.
- ↑ Indian Hemp Drugs Commission (1894). "Evidence of Babu Abhilas Chandra Mukerjee, Brahmin, Deputy Magistrate and Deputy Collector, on deputation as 2nd Inspector of Excise, Bengal". Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893–94. Vol. IV: Evidence of Witnesses from Bengal and Assam. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India. p. 169 – via Internet Archive.