Laghuput

The Ayruveda term Laghuput implies to a specific setup prepared to cook/roast medicinal ingredients or mixtures at a optimum specific temperature for ideal end-result formulation. Laghuput process requires construction of pit in the ground whith equal dimensions in height XwidthXlength. This pit is covered with dry cow-dung collected in their natural state. The medicine to be cooked is put in a sealed vessel and placed in between the dung cakes. The dung cakes are set to flame and the medicine is allowed to burn till the dung-cakes burn out.

Interestingly as with other forms of Put (Skt.) like Gajput(2ftX2X2) etc. the dimensions of Laghuput are unclear. However as the term Laghu mean sSmall or mild; we can infer that Laghuput may simply imply to heating over sustained low flame or roasting the ingredients in a pit not more that 1/4ft to 1/2 ft in overall dimensions. However more investigations are required.

• Many times in place of cow-dung cakes, wood /dry twigs/ branches from specific plants as per formulation demands are used .


• The number of times the entire burning process is repeated is denoted as that many number of Laghuput. For example if a formulation requires 8 Laghuput then the entire contents are cooked 8 times in the above described setup where each and every material except the pit created is prepared fresh


• Laghuput is also synonymously known as Samanyaput. However certain books treat them as differnt swith respect to the intensity of flame used.