LAISHA · AYURVEDA

Dahaprashamana

Allaying burning · Charaka's fifty mahakashaya

SystemCharaka's fifty mahakashaya
SourceCharaka Samhita, Sutrasthana 4 (Shadvirechanashatashritiya)
Dravya10

The 10 dravya

NameIdentity
Lajanot yet written up in this library
ChandanaChandana Santalum album L.
UshiraUshira Chrysopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty
Madhuka contestedYashtimadhu Glycyrrhiza glabra L.
SarivaSariva Hemidesmus indicus (L.) R.Br. ex Schult.
GuduchiGuduchi Tinospora cordifolia (Willd.) Hook.f. & Thomson
PadmakaPadmaka Prunus cerasoides Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
UtpalaKushtha Saussurea costus (Falc.) Lipsch.
KashmaryaGambhari Gmelina arborea Roxb.
AmalakaAmalaki Phyllanthus emblica L.

Where the commentators differ

Madhuka

Madhuka is both Yashtimadhu (Glycyrrhiza glabra) and Madhuka (Madhuca longifolia). Through the mahakashaya and most ganas it is read as Yashtimadhu. In Nyagrodhadi, a group of latex-bearing trees, it is Madhuca longifolia — the group decides the reading.

1 of these 10 names are not yet written up in Laisha's dravya library. The group is printed whole either way, because a gana with members quietly left out is not the gana.

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