Arresting pain · Charaka's fifty mahakashaya
| System | Charaka's fifty mahakashaya |
| Source | Charaka Samhita, Sutrasthana 4 (Shadvirechanashatashritiya) |
| Dravya | 10 |
| Name | Identity |
|---|---|
| Shala | not yet written up in this library |
| Katphala | Katphala Myrica esculenta Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don |
| Kadamba | Kadamba Neolamarckia cadamba (Roxb.) Bosser |
| Padmaka | Padmaka Prunus cerasoides Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don |
| Twak | Twak Cinnamomum verum J.Presl |
| Madhuka contested | Yashtimadhu Glycyrrhiza glabra L. |
| Shirisha | Shirisha Albizia lebbeck (L.) Benth. |
| Vanjula | Ashoka Saraca asoca (Roxb.) W.J.de Wilde |
| Elavaluka | not yet written up in this library |
| Ashvakarna | not yet written up in this library |
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.
3 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.