Ashoka: A plant that makes a woman free of sorrow

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Common Name:

Ashoka (Eng.)

 

Sanskrit Name:

Ashoka- Means without sorrow i.e. it makes a person sorrow less

specially the females and for females, discomfort of menstruation is

the greatest sorrow and Ashoka works on it

Hemapushpa- As its flowers are of golden yellow color

Tamrapallava- As its leaves are having the color of copper

 

 

Lt. Name:

Saraca asoca- Leguminosae

 

 

Bio energetics:

Rasa (Taste)- Kashaya (Astringent); Tikta (Bitter)

Guna (Characteristics)- Laghu (Light); Ruksha (Rough)

Veerya (Potency)- Sheeta (Cool and calm)

Vipaka (Post digestion effect)- Katu (Pungent)

Prabhava (Special action on human physiology for which we have no

explanation how it works so)- Vedana sthapana (Useful in management of

all painful conditions including spasmodic and congestive pain of

dysmenorrhoea)

 

 

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