Baidhyanath Tamra Bhasma - 5 GM

• Tamra Bhasma is an Ayurvedic medicine, prepared from Copper. It is used in Ayurvedic treatment of skin diseases, obesity, piles, asthma etc. This medicine should only be taken strictly under medical supervision.

Tamra Bhasma Uses:

• It is used in the treatment of Pitta and Kapha predominance diseases, skin diseases, helminthiasis, obesity, anorexia, tuberculosis, pthisis, chronic respiratory conditions, cough, cold, asthma, eye diseases, anemia, piles, dyspepsia.
• It has scraping quality. Hence used in treating high cholesterol.
• It is also widely researched in cancer treatments.
• It is a very good emetic drug and produces instant vomiting in all ailments and in poison that has gone inside in particular. In food poisoning, any residual poison is cleared by this, if taken in small doses.
• This is useful in grahani, chronic fever, liver and spleen disorders, anal fistula.

Use of Tamra bhasm in poisoning:In olden days, when there was poisoning, first vomiting and purgation was induced to remove remnant poison in the gut. Then, to cleanse the heart, Tamra bhasma was administered to the patient. After that, Swarna bhasma is administered for a long period of time.

Tamra Bhasma dosage:

• 250 mg once or twice a day before or after food or as directed by Ayurvedic doctor.
• It is traditionally administered along with ghee, honey milk or with sugar.
• If mixed in honey and applied, it cleanses and heals wounds.
• To induce vomiting 60-300 mg is given in sugar or honey.