A BRIEF REVIEW OF PUBLISHED RESEARCH WORKS ON NAGA BHASMA

Abstract

Review of scholarly articles give a new interpretation of old material or combine new with old interpretations, trace the intellectual progression of the field, including major debates, depending on the situation, evaluate the sources and advise the reader on the most pertinent or relevant research and identify where gaps exist in how a problem has been researched to date. Naga bhasma is one of Ayurvedic preparation on which few researches has been conducted which covers large area of quality control and safety profile, however still much claim has been made against the therapeutic concerns of Naga bhasma. Therefore in present work an attempt has been made to make a brief review of published research works on Naga bhasma. Total twenty works has been reviewed. All work related to standardization, experimental study and review has been traced and the gist of these research works has been presented in this paper. These research work have built strong basis for quality control, quality assessment and safety data.