CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF GANDHAKA TAILA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO IT'S APPLIED ASPECTS OF PHARMACO-THERAPEUTICAL APPRAISAL

Introduction: Gandhak is one of the important materials extensively used in Ayurvedic practice of medicine, in different dosage form like, suddha gandhak, gandhak vati, gandhak taila, gandhak Rasayan etc. Among different dosage form gandhak taila is potentially effective in various skin disorders, whether it is in chronic or in acute stage. Aim and Objective: Many literatures are pronouncing the pharmaceutical preparation of gandhak taila with different methods. Hence in the current literary research, it is aimed to sort out apparently, an easy and convenience method of manufacturing by critically analysing different processes described in the literatures with respect to cost and availability of genuine raw materials, amount of labour and time factor required; along with processes leniency. Methodology: Different manufacturing processes for Gandhak taila were studied in different ancient literatures and in published articles of different journals. The pharmaceutical, therapeutical and analytical data were gathered and critically analysed to sort out apparently an easy, suitable and rational method for manufacturing of gandhak taila on the basis of available literary data. Result and Discussion: Gandhak taila is a potential ayurvedic medicine used to treat different disease conditions, specifically various skin disorders. As there is multiple method of manufacturing by using different raw materials were described in the literature, it is necessary to have right choice for selecting the appropriate method of preparation having rational physico-chemical properties for it’s intended use. In current literary research work, data available from different sources were analysed and it is tried to explore the most suitable pharmaceutical method. Summery and Conclusion: On analysing the collected data it is observed that the pharmaceutical manufacturing method of gandhak taila described in Rasaratnasamucchaya, Rasatarangini, Rasendra Chintamani may be suitable in all aspects. How ever this review article is based on critical analysis of currently available literatures and certain published analytical and clinical research data, available in online platform, hence the rational revalidation is always open with more data and new research.