Eyes health. These are medicinal preparations meant for external application to the eyes.
Vartis are made by grinding the fine powders of the drugs with the fluids in the formula to form a soft paste. This is then made into thin sticks of about 2 centimeters in length and dried in shade.
Netrabindu is prepared by dissolving the semisolids of drugs to be applied with Netra-salaka (type of drug applicator to the eye).
Anjana – thick viscous drops, creams and ointments . In general, there are 2 types of Anjana: Souviranjana – should be used daily and Srotoanjana – is comparatively strong and should be used once in a week.