ABSTRACT
In Ayurveda, Bhaishaja-Kalpana is the next step after the herb is identified and collected. Mostly fresh herbs were used until the sixteenth century. Collection of herbs is also not being done scientifically. For example, annual plants should be collected before the ripening of seeds, biennials during spring and perennials during autumn. Impregnating and triturating the herb was of utmost importance in the mind of the physician. It was important to ensure that the herb, as soon as administered, is absorbed quickly at the cell level and enters the body as a dynamic agent. The herbal trade remained dominated by unscrupulous businessmen, semi-literate religious preachers, and priests. The unorganized sector had a heyday. The market remained flooded with substandard medicines. In Calcutta, Dr. Ghosh S. C. made a combination of medicinal herbs with the alcohol-water mixture, medicated the sugar globules with the combination and treated various ailments.
