A Review on Study of Collection of Drugs as Per its Parts and Seasonal Aspects

Ayurveda drugs are whole n sole belongs to plant and mineral origins. To get the best results from the drugs we need best potency drugs to treat the disease in very excellent way. And to get such best potency drugs it is mandatory that it should be prepared from raw materials of superior quality. Any drug preparation is quite a long method and it starts with collection of the drug very firstly. In ayurvedic literatures, there are many factors explained very efficiently to collect the drug from the plant like from taking permission from that plant up to the prayer before collection of drug, the person who is collecting the drug should be neat and clean, he should wear white dress, should think of bhumi, veerya, season etc. it has been told as there might be change in quality of active principle according to seasons in plants, due to impact of sunrays, moon rays and also the impact of nakshatras. Hence it is considered from above mentioned scenario by ayurvedic acharyas after experiments done by them over thousands of years and generation after generations, said that particular part of drug should be collected in particular season. Dr. Sadanand P. Dhamankar | Dr. Balasaheb Kurkute "A Review on Study of Collection of Drugs as Per its Parts and Seasonal Aspects" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-6 , October 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd52011.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/medicine/ayurvedic/52011/a-review-on-study-of-collection-of-drugs-as-per-its-parts-and-seasonal-aspects/dr-sadanand-p-dhamankar