The materials that are made into bhasma in ayurveda vary from minerals to animal and plant products. Chemically they are oxides or ash of the drug concerned. They are in the form of a fine powder with a certain proportion of the particles being in a colloidal state. Sufoof Churna are fine dry powders of drugs. They may be from a single drug or a mixture of powders from different ayurvedic drugs.
Ingredients are mixed in the granular form and compressed into tablets.
This is done for easy consumption. Nei The Ghrta are medicated ghee preparations. Certain fat-soluble parts of drugs are used in the preparations. This is done by boiling pastes of drugs in a mixture of ghee and water. The mixture is then boiled till the water evaporates.