Allaying urticaria · Charaka's fifty mahakashaya
| System | Charaka's fifty mahakashaya |
| Source | Charaka Samhita, Sutrasthana 4 (Shadvirechanashatashritiya) |
| Dravya | 10 |
| Name | Identity |
|---|---|
| Tiktaka | not yet written up in this library |
| Chandana | Chandana Santalum album L. |
| Nalada contested | Jatamansi Nardostachys jatamansi (D.Don) DC. |
| Kutaja | Kutaja Holarrhena pubescens Wall. ex G.Don |
| Katphala | Katphala Myrica esculenta Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don |
| Nimba | Nimba Azadirachta indica A.Juss. |
| Kushtha | Kushtha Saussurea costus (Falc.) Lipsch. |
| Daruharidra | Daruharidra Berberis aristata DC. |
| Madhuka contested | Yashtimadhu Glycyrrhiza glabra L. |
| Haridra | Haridra Curcuma longa L. |
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.