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    Musha are crucibles used in Ayurvedic alchemy. They are constructed using materials like burnt husk, iron powder, horse dung, and milk. Mushas come in various shapes and sizes for different purposes like purification, heating, and brightening metals and minerals. There are over 20 types of mushas classified based on their shape, heat resistance, and intended use in processes like purification, heating, and mercury amalgamation. Modern crucibles serve similar functions and are made from materials like clay, graphite, and metals, to conduct high temperature chemical reactions and metal processing.

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    Musha are crucibles used in Ayurvedic alchemy. They are constructed using materials like burnt husk, iron powder, horse dung, and milk. Mushas come in various shapes and sizes for different purposes like purification, heating, and brightening metals and minerals. There are over 20 types of mushas classified based on their shape, heat resistance, and intended use in processes like purification, heating, and mercury amalgamation. Modern crucibles serve similar functions and are made from materials like clay, graphite, and metals, to conduct high temperature chemical reactions and metal processing.

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    Musha are crucibles used in Ayurvedic alchemy. They are constructed using materials like burnt husk, iron powder, horse dung, and milk. Mushas come in various shapes and sizes for different purposes like purification, heating, and brightening metals and minerals. There are over 20 types of mushas classified based on their shape, heat resistance, and intended use in processes like purification, heating, and mercury amalgamation. Modern crucibles serve similar functions and are made from materials like clay, graphite, and metals, to conduct high temperature chemical reactions and metal processing.

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    MUSHA IN AYURVEDA

    PREPARED BY:
    SIDDHENDU & SUKRITI

    M.PHARM (AYURVEDA)
    CONTENTS
    INTTRODUCTION RASASHASTRA & MUSHA
    DEFINITION MUSHA VIJNANA
    HISTORICAL CONSIDERATION
    SYNONYMS
    CONSTRUCTION PREPARATION & PARTS
    CLASSIFICATION OF MUSHA
    USES OF MUSHA
    AN INSIGHT INTO THE MODERN USES.
    INTTRODUCTION RASASHASTRA &
    MUSHA
    In Ayurvedic medicine, the traditional medical lore
    of Hinduism, Rasa Shastra is a process by which
    various metals, minerals and other substances,
    including mercury, are purified and combined with herbs in an
    attempt to treat illnesses which is now a pharmaceutical branch
    of Indian system of medicine.

    Discovery of metals & their various applications paved away


    to the science of metallurgy of which Crucibles (Musha) were
    an inevitable part.
    DEFINITION MUSHA VIJNANA
    HISTORICAL CONSIDERATION

    The word of Musha has its origin in the process of Purification of metals
    to which it is primarily employed.
    SYNONYMS

    The experts of alchemy call Musha also as


    Krauncika made of soil obtained from
    Krauncika / shape resembles bird known as
    Krauncika.
    Karahatika - soil obtained from Karahata desa.
    Kumudi shape resembles with Kumuda puspa
    Pacini most of them are used for pachana.
    Bahni mitra - friend towards fire
    Musa used to remove the removable dosa.
    CONSTRUCTION PREPARATION & PARTS
    Basic material needed :
    1)Dagdha tusha(Burnt Husk)
    2) Pashana churna
    3)Angara(Burnt Charcoal)
    4)Lohakitta(Iron slag)
    5)Dagdhagara(Burnt clay)
    6)Sana(Jute)
    7)Vida(Salt)
    8)Bhunaga mruttika
    9)Krushna mruttika
    10)Shweta mruttika
    11)Rakta mruttika
    12) Valmika mruttika(Hillrock soil)
    13)Shwetashma(Limestones)
    14)Kupi churna
    15)Sukti churna
    16)Ishtika churna
    17)Bhunaga satwa
    18)Jala
    19)Mahisha kshira
    CONTD.

    Grahya laxnana of Mruttika: Blackish colour, Pandura colour,


    withoout impurities like stone, shining, sticky in nature & heavy.
    CONTD.

    Samanya musa (Ordinary Crucible) :


    Made of earth & iron powder;
    horse dung, powdered coal, burnt chaff are added;
    milk added as moistening agent;
    various shape & size;
    hard , durable and heat resistant.
    CONTD.

    Parts of Musha
    1) Upper part ( Pidhanaka )
    Covers the musha & protect material to flow from it.
    2) Lower basal part
    Used for keeping materials for heating.
    CLASSIFICATION OF MUSHA

    1. Vajra Musha : Shape round or oval ; stand


    for strong heat for 4 yamas (12 hours) ; used
    for rasa sodhana, marana, bandhana,
    murchana etc.
    2. Gara Musha: Shape round or oval ; stand
    for strong heat for 2 yamas (6 hours) ; used
    for rasa karma.

    contd.
    Contd.

    3. Vara Musha : Shape not mentioned; stand


    for strong heat for 1 yamas (3 hours) ; used
    for rasa karmas.
    4. Vajra dravani Musha: Shape not
    mentioned ; stand for strong heat for 2 -4
    yamas (6 -12 hours) ; used for rasa karma.

    contd.
    Contd.

    5.Varna Musha : Shape not mentioned; stand


    for strong heat ; used for brighten the colour.
    6. AndhaMusha: Shape gostankara with
    pointed covering lid; stand for strong heat for;
    used for patra lepa, ranjana, saran etc.
    7. Raupya Musha: Shape like Vajra Musha;
    used for making white colour bright as silver.

    contd.
    Contd.

    8. Bhasma Musha : Shape not mentioned;


    used for purification of silver.
    9. YogaMusha: Shape not mentioned ; used in
    mercurial process.
    10. Prakash Musha: Shape like sarava; used
    in beej nirvapana.
    11. Vrintaka Musha: Shape looks like
    vrintaka; used in rasa karma.
    Contd.

    12. Pakva Musha : Shape like bhanda or pot


    maker; used for pachana, svedana, sodhana.
    13. Malla Musha: Shape like ball; used for
    swedana of parpati etc.
    14. Gola Musha: Shape Round like ball; used
    for quick purificcation.

    contd.
    Contd.

    15. Maha Musha : Shape Kurpara sandhi or


    elbow joints; used for satva patanna of abhrak
    & makshik.
    16. Manduka Musha: Shape like frog; used
    for puta paka & marana.
    17. Musala Musha: Shape like cylinder flat at
    base; used for preparaing chakri baddha rasa.

    contd.
    Contd.

    18. Garbha Musha : Shape not mentioned;


    used for parada bandhana.
    19. Gostani Musha: Shape Gostankara; used
    for sodhana & dravana of satva.
    Contd.

    20.Vida Musha : Shape not mentioned; used


    for loha & deha siddhi.
    21.PrakataMusha: Shape like sarava; used for
    sarana karma.
    MUSHA LEPA (CRUCIBLE LINING)
    MUSHA LEPA (CRUCIBLE LINING)
    USES OF MUSHA

    Rasa Murcchana
    Rasa Sodhana
    Rasa Marana
    Rasa Bandhana
    Dvanda Melapana
    Dravana
    Satavpatan
    AN INSIGHT INTO THE MODERN USES.

    Crucible, pot of clay.


    Used from ancient times as a container for melting or testing
    metals
    Crucibles were probably so named from the Latin
    word crux, cross or trial.
    Modern crucibles may be small laboratory utensils for
    conducting high-temperature chemical reactions and analyses
    or large industrial vessels for melting and calcining metal and
    ore
    they may be made of clay, graphite, porcelain, platinum,
    PTFE, SS, nickel, carbon steel, zirconium, vitreous carbon or
    a relatively infusible metal.
    AN INSIGHT INTO THE MODERN USES.
    REFERENCES
    Alchemy And Metallic Medicines In Ayurveda By Bhagwan Dash 187
    190
    Vijaya Jayant Deshpande, Musavijnana or the ancient science of
    crucibles, Indian Journal of History of Science, 31(4), 1996; p 359
    373.
    Apte Vinayak, Rasratnasamuccaya of Vagbhata, Anandasrama
    Sanskrit series no 19, Poona, 1890
    Rasa Ratna Samuccaya by Sri Vagbhatta Acharya
    rasa-kamadhenu, Chaukhambha Orientalia by Sri Cudamani Mishra,
    Vaidh Santosh Kumar Sharma
    Dr. Damodar Joshi, Rasasastra, Chaukhambha Orientalia, 2010; p
    346-360

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