Panaka

Panaka is a sweet flavored drink prepared with sugar/jaggery, water, and various flavoring agents like cardamom, camphor, and lemon. It is a refreshing drink that relieves thirst, cooling sensation, and fatigue. Different types of Panaka are described based on the flavoring ingredients used. It is particularly beneficial in summer season.

• Trishna-shamana (thirst-relieving)
• Dahaprashamana (cooling)
• Shramahara (relieves fatigue)

Meat juice (Mamsarasa) which is not very thick, Rasala (curds churned and mixed with pepper powder and sugar), Raga (syrup which is sweet, sour and salty) and Khandava (syrup which has all the tastes, prepared with many substances), Panaka panchasara, (syrup prepared with raisins (draksha), madhuka, dates (karjura), kasmarya, and parushaka fruits all in equal quantities, cooled and added with powder of cinnamon leaves, cinnamon and cardamom etc) and kept inside a fresh mud pot, along with leav

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Ritucharya adhyaya Seasonal

Panaka (vegetable / fruit juice) म ुत ् त ृ लमहरं पानकं व टि भ मू लं यं यथा ीणनं गु ॥३५॥ यगुणं च तत ् । Relieves exhaustion, hunger, thirst and fatigue, gives satisfaction.

— Astanga Hridaya Sutrasthan, Annaswaroopa Food

Summary of 20 formulations: 7 pills with seven vehicles, 2 with ghee and meat soup, 1 panaka (syrup), 1 inhalation, 1 linctus, 3 with yusha/mamsarasa/ghee, 2 with dry fish/meat, 1 sura, 2 ghee preparations.

— Charaka Samhita, Kalpa Sthana — Pharmaceutical Preparations, Chapter 10: Pharmaceutical Preparations of Sudha (Sudha Kalpa Adhyaya / सुधाकल्प अध्याय)

Ratneshvara Rasa and Mahashira Panaka should be employed here.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Parishishtam, Chapter 20: Sunstroke (Anshughata)

Specific formulations: Ratneshvara Rasa (gem-based preparation) and Mahashira Panaka (a cooling herbal drink).

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Parishishtam, Chapter 20: Sunstroke (Anshughata)

Ratneshvara Rasa and Mahashira Panaka should be employed here.

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Parishishtam, Chapter 19: Sunstroke (Anshughata)

Specific formulations: Ratneshvara Rasa (gem-based preparation) and Mahashira Panaka (a cooling herbal drink).

— Sharangadhara Samhita, Parishishtam, Chapter 19: Sunstroke (Anshughata)