PRAVAL

Praval - is a natural source of rich calcium widely used in traditional system of Indian medicine as a supplement in the treatment of variety of bone metabolic disorders associated with calcium deficiency.

 

Hindi Name                : Munga
English                       : Red Coral, Parvara, Praval
Chemical Name       : calcium carbonate

Ayurvedic name : Coralium Rubrum

Family : Pravala, Munga, Praval Pishti

Parts used : Polypi

Habitat and Botany : Purified, Calcinated powder Calcareous Shell or Skeleton

Hardness      : 3.5

SP. Gravity     : 2.6-2.7    

An aquatic animal called anthozoan polyps dead body.This animal lives in oceans.When calcium proporation increases in the body the animal dies.The dead part is called Prawal.This may be white, red, black colour.But red( pink) is best one. It looks like honey comb.

Corals grow on rocky seabottom with low sedimentation, typically in dark environments--either in the depths or in dark caverns or crevices. The original species, C. rubrum, is found mainly in the Mediterranean Sea.