Charak Samhita

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प्रवालस्वरसं शुष्कं कृत्वा च गुलिकाः पृथक्| कोविदारादिभिः पेयाः कषायैर्मधुकस्य च||६||

[Different preparations] The juice of tender leaves is dried and made into pills which should be administered along with the decoction prepared out of any one of the drug from kovidaradi gana or madhuka (Glycyrrhiza glabra Linn.) [Note: Kovidaradi gana: Kovidaradi drugs include rakta kanchanara (Bauhinia variegata Linn.), shweta kanchanara (Bauhinia purpurea Linn.), kadamba (Anthocephalus indicus Miq.), jalaveta (Salix tetrasperma), kundaru (Boswellia serrata Roxb.), shanapushpi (Crotolaria verrucosa Linn.), madara (Calotropis procera Ait. R. Br.), apamarga (Achyranthes aspera Linn.). Total nine preparations are enlisted depending on nine decoction prepared. Out of which eight decoctions are prepared from each eight drugs of kovidaradi gana and one decoction prepared from madhuka (Glycyrrhiza glabra Linn).]

english translation

pravAlasvarasaM zuSkaM kRtvA ca gulikAH pRthak| kovidArAdibhiH peyAH kaSAyairmadhukasya ca||6||

hk transliteration by Sanscript