Gold Bhasma

Dose:

10–30mg twice daily, in Honey, Butter, Ghee, Milk or Cream

Vehicles for Gold Bhasma:

-used for inflammation; take with Fish (or other) Bile
-Nutritive, Tonic and Aphrodisiac if taken with the juice of Eclipta
-also a Tonic if taken with Milk
-as an Aphrodisiac, with sugar and milk
-Rasayana (tonic to the 7 Body Tissues) if taken with Ghee
-to improve Health and Beauty, with Saffron
-for Heart disease, with milk, Terminalia arjuna bark and sugar
-Improves Eyesight, taken with Boerhaavia diffusa
-Improves memory, taken with Calamus
-used for Tuberculosis and Wasting, if taken with Milk
-also for Tuberculosis, taken with the juice of Garlic
-for Insantiy due to derangement of all 3 Dosas (Wind, Phlegm and Bile), taken with Black Pepper, Cloves and Ginger.
-Gold Bhasma is taken in doses of 12 Barley Corns weight with Black Pepper and Ghee. It is very good for Consumption, Poor Appetite, Asthma, Nausea, Jaundice, Chronic Diarrhea, and all types of Poison. It is a powerful tonic, increasing Strength and Vitality.

Purification of Gold (Ayurveda):

Pure Gold (24k) bought today does not require further purification. It can be used directly as Gold leaf, or used to prepare Bhasma.

1. A general method that can be used to Purify all Metals:
  Gold leaves are heated and quenched 7 times each in Sesame Oil, Butter Milk, Cow’s Urine, Kanji (type of Vinegar), and a Decoction of Dolichos biflora. This method can be used for Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Brass and Bronze.
  Tin, Lead and Zinc can be processed with the same liquids, however, these metals are melted and poured slowly through a stone plate with a hole in it where the melted metals falls into each of the abovementioned liquids, 7 times in each liquid.
  In most cases, further processing is required for each specific Metal to ensure proper purification.
2. “Prepare a fine leaves of gold pearceble with needle, cut these into fine pieces with scissors. Put these into pyrex glass beaker or in ordinary beaker wrapped with mud and cloth. Put the beaker on a tripoid stand and apply heat via a spirit lamp adding hydro-chloric acid slowly and nitric acid 1/4 to hydrochloric acid till gold is dissolved. Heating may be continued for sometime to evaporate excess acid. Add some oxalic acid mixed with water. By this method dissolved gold become precipitated in the form of fine powder at the bottom of the glass beaker. Now wash it with water till its acidic content is removed. On drying collect pure gold powder from It. This may be used for further processing (marana/incenaration).”
  This is a modern way of purification of Gold. (Rasamritam)

Preparation:

1. Bhasma of Gold (1):
  “Mix purified gold powder with equal part of white Arsenic powder (Somala). Triturate these with Kancanara ( Bauhinia variegata) juice arid Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum) leaf juice. Make its pellets and allow these to dry. Then these are subjected to laghu puta heating by puta system. From second puta onwards mix white arsenic
1/4 th part only, such 10 putas make reddish colour gold bhasma.” (Rasamritam)
2. Bhasma of Gold (2):
  Thin leaves of Gold are smeared with a paste made of Lead Bhasma and Lemon juice, then subjected to Putam; this is repeated 3 times. The Lead is removed by rubbing with Cinnabar, and it is subjected to Putam a further 3 times.
3. Bhasma of Gold (3):
  Gold leaf is smeared with a paste made of the juices of Cassia fistula, Semecarpus anarcardium, and Borax; this is then heated in Gaja Puta. Repeat 7 times
4. Bhasma of Gold from Siddha:
  Triturate 54 grains each of Gold leaf and corrected Hen’s Egg Shells together and drop in it 5 drops of the milk drawn from the plant Daemia extensa (not the juice of the leaves) and mix. Place this in a Gold Smith’s crucible, cover it with a lid pan, seal with cloth and clay, and dry.
  Take a big mud pot, half fill with paddy husks, place the crucible over the husks, filling up with more of the husks. Burn, cool and powder.
5. Bhasma of Gold from Tibetan Medicine:
“Prepare gold ash compound by first hammering the gold into a sheet as thin as a bee’s wing. Rub and powder it well without leaving any flat portions. Add Borax, Sulphur, Sesame seed and Linseed, and roll them into pills and burn them in a pot over a coal”. (Subsequent Tantra)