Ashoka: A plant that make a woman free of sorrow

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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