EMBELICA OFFICINALIS

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Remedy Origin / Source
Natural

Clinical Applications

EMBELICA OFFICINALIS (Emblic myrobalan) Plant introduction It is a medium sized and 20-25 ft high tree having 1/4 inch thick grayish bark with reddish cortex. Stalks of leaves are long. Flowers are small and greenish-yellow in colour having elongated peduncle. Fruits are astringent, not-ched and ...

General Description

EMBELICA OFFICINALIS (Emblic myrobalan) Plant introduction It is a medium sized and 20-25 ft high tree having 1/4 inch thick grayish bark with reddish cortex. Stalks of leaves are long. Flowers are small and greenish-yellow in colour having elongated peduncle. Fruits are astringent, not-ched and plum like 1/2-3/4 inch in size, round and contain pale-yellow substance. There are 6 seeds in each fruit. The best quality of Emb. myrobalan has a smell of sulphur (found in Kashi). Dry fruit is shrunk, black and aromatic. Florescence and fructification take place in the seasons of spring and winter respectively.   Growing places: Fonnd in various states of india and Himalayan regions, Ceylone, China, Burma etc. Name: In Sanskrit-Amlaki, Bayastha, Dhatrik;  Bengali-Amlaki;  Hindi-...

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EMBELICA OFFICINALIS

(Emblic myrobalan)

Plant introduction

It is a medium sized and 20-25 ft high tree having 1/4 inch thick grayish bark with reddish cortex. Stalks of leaves are long. Flowers are small and greenish-yellow in colour having elongated peduncle. Fruits are astringent, not-ched and plum like 1/2-3/4 inch in size, round and contain pale-yellow substance. There are 6 seeds in each fruit. The best quality of Emb. myrobalan has a smell of sulphur (found in Kashi). Dry fruit is shrunk, black and aromatic. Florescence and fructification take place in the seasons of spring and winter respectively.
 
Growing places:
Fonnd in various states of india and Himalayan regions, Ceylone, China, Burma etc.

Name:

In Sanskrit-Amlaki, Bayastha, Dhatrik; 
Bengali-Amlaki; 
Hindi-Amla; 
Gujrati & Marathi-Amla; Oriya-Arira; 
Tamil-Nellikai; 
French-Amla-Kong; 
Arabiya-Amlaj; 
English-Emblic myrobalan or Indian gooseberry;
Latin-Embelica Officinalis Gaerth.
 
Family: Euphorbiaceae.
Time of collection: Generally Fruits are collected in the winter for medici-nal use but may be used in all seasons.
Chemical composition: Acid Tannin, Gallic Acid, Ellagic Acid, Glucose in the molecule, Rich source of Pectin and vitamin C, ascorbic acid (600 to 921 mg per 100 gm).
 
Physio-Chemical actions:
Fruit is bitter, astringent, refreshing, refrigerant and stomachic. Green fruit remeves constipation dry fruit. use-ful in haemorrhage, diarrhoea and dysentery. Also in cases of acidity, anaemia, jaundice or loss of appetite. In take of this drug along with lime juice removes blood-dysentery. This drug has actions on all parts of the body. especially, in the lower interior part (intestinal disorders).

Opinions of different Physicians

  1. Charak-This drug can be administered in cases of eryse-palas, hicough and leucorrhoea.
  2. Shusrut-Piles, gonorrhoea and painful micturition.
  3. Chakradutta says-This drug is a remedy for haematemesis and colic pain.
  4. Bhavaprakash-In urinary disorders and irritation of the vagina.
  5. Hareet-Vomit marked by rheumatism and wound of the head.
  6. Bangasen-In haematuria and strangury.
 
I prescribe this in the case of Acidity Gastritis and use safely at the time of pregnancy.
 

Thearapeutic uses:

The fresh extract is diuretic and used in cleaning skin of the human body. It removes diarrhoea and dysentery.
Practitioners in Hindu Science of Medicine use the flowers as an astringent (Mat. Medica of India Voi 11 p 244).
 
  • Dr. Dymock says-The fresh juice is very effective in gonorrhoea when taken with honey and turmeric. The decoction of seeds is bitter, strengthening and expels blood dysentery. The Greek physicians have also described the effectiveness of this drug in the disorders ofthe three humours of the body. One of the ingredients of Chavanprash is Emblic myrobalan.
  • Mr. J. Dutta says-The most useful parts of the tree is fruit. It is one of the richest sources of Vitamin C. The fresh fruit is refrigerant, tonic, antiscorbutic, diuretic and laxative. It is used in fevers, hiccough, eczema, vomiting, indigestion, habitual constipation and other dis-orders of the digestive system. It is a blood-purifier; also given in diarrhoea, dysentery and haemorrhage. It is an useful eye-wash in diseases of the eyes.

Symptoms

Head: Headache marked by indigestion also sourish vomiting, throbbing sensation of the forehead; painful movements; hairs fall.
 
Stomach: Sourish vomiting, acidity; setting of patient's teeth on edge; cramping or colicky pain. Sourish odour in faeces; caries of teeth owing to excessive acidity; flatulence attended with colicky pain (Atista Rad). Sourish odour from the body of a child. Milk is not digested. Vomiting like curdled milk; dyspepsia. This medicine is stomachic,
 
Female Rep. Organ: Leucorrheal discharge with sourish or fetid smell; itching like ring-worm.
 
Urine: Scanty and turbid discharge with foul odour. Irritation during urinal flow.
 
Stool: Constipation; loose and sourish stool owing to acidity.
 
Skin: Dirty and horny skin with ring worm or eczema.

Dose:

10-20 minims four times a day.
 

Clinical Tips & Practitioner Insights

"CINA is a great remedy for xanthopsia. There is a yellow tint imparted to landscapes and objects looked at.These are effects perhaps most comparable to that of looking through yellow glass."

By Dr. N.M.Choudhuri, M.D. Xanthopsia

"The most careful analysis of clinical experience has demonstrated that CINA is most powerful for the elimination of round worms."

By Dr. Farrington, M.D. Round Worms

Remedy Profile

  • Type Plant
  • Common Name N/A
  • Origin Source Natural
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