The Zinc Bhasma of Indian Alchemy By Steve Kalec

In Kutna Hora Czech Republic in

2001, Professor Manfred Junius
showed us how the Zinc Bhasma, an
Arjuvedic medicine, is made in India.
It is truly a very interesting process in
that the Zinc is made to marry with
the vegetable kingdom. The metal
Zinc is made to become a metal-
organic substance. In the Indian
Arjuvedic philosophy, it is stated that
the metal Zinc cannot interact with
the human organic system since it has
no senses. In order for the zinc, which
is an excellent immune system
booster, to become a medicine we
must first give it senses. This is done
through marrying the Zinc metal with
a suitable plant or a herb. It is said
that the spice of Curcuma, which is
also an immune booster, loves Zinc
very much and vice versa. But before this marriage can occur the Zinc must
pass through a preliminary contact with organic matter in order to sensitise it.
The organic matter can be milk, cow urine, plant decoctions and even soups
like lentil soup. In our case we used plain yoghurt.

Our Zinc’s first contact with organic matter.

Heat small pieces of zinc on a stainless steal spoon. When the zinc has melted
pour it into a container of a yoghurt-milk/or water mixture. When all your zinc
has thus been introduced into the organic matter for the first time, remove
your zinc pieces from the organic matter. Clean them and wash them in water,
and repeat this process for a total of seven times. Each time the zinc will
become more and more brittle.
The Open Calcination.
To your zinc on a stainless steel spoon and under a fire slowly add some
powdered curcuma, adding a little repeatedly. If this mixture should flame up,
blow the flame out . Do not allow the mixture to oxidize, this you will see

happening when the black mixture is wanting to turn white at the outer
periphery. This oxidation is produced if your heat is too much. Control your
heat by playing with the distance of your spoon to your fire. If your mixture
begins to whiten add more curcuma. Continue calcining and adding curcuma
until there is no more sight of amalgamated zinc and only a black pulverized
powder is had. If there is still visible some tiny pieces of zinc metal in a fused
state, this is toxic, and will be visibly bright under light. Retrieve these small
pieces and recycle them in your next batch to be calcined with curcuma.
Repeat this open calcinations until all your zinc has been used. Do not allow
your mixture to fuse into one mass.

Closed Calcination.
Add all your black powder mixture of zinc and curcuma into a corning ware
dish. Add some more curcuma, ( there should always be a little more curcuma
than black powder), and make as paste like mixture of it by adding distilled
water. Heat this mixture in your pyrex casserole. Your mixture should turn
into a red colour. Place cover and heat at 750 C for three hours. The mixture
will turn into a dark grey colour. This calcinations must be repeated 40 times.
To repeat these cycles, add as much curcuma as the amount of powder that we
are left with at the end of each calcinations. Mix with distilled water as before
and repeat the calcinations. These calcinations repetitions produce an
alchemical purification and dynamism through fire. In India some bhasmas
are perpetually calcined and the work is passed on through generations. Here
we see that some benefit must be also obtained through the work alone as in
all alchemical works.

Use
The bhasma powder should be grey like ash when completed. Very little is to
be used on one’s finger tip for ingesting and washed down with water. One
may even prepare ointments with it. Zinc acts very positively on the immune
system.