Myrobalan, EmblicAmalaki (Ayurveda)
Aamla (Unani) Skyu Ru Ra སྐྱ་རུ་ར (Tibetan) Yu Gan Zi 余甘子 (TCM) |
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Emblic Myrobalan
Witsen, N., Jager, H. de, Plantae Javanicae pictae, ex Java transmissae anno MDCC (1700)
Witsen, N., Jager, H. de, Plantae Javanicae pictae, ex Java transmissae anno MDCC (1700)
Chebulic, Emblic, Belleric, Citrine (Yellow) and Indian (Black) Myrobalan
A Complete History of Drugs, Pomet, London, 1748
A Complete History of Drugs, Pomet, London, 1748
1. Yellow (Citrine) Myrobalan
2. Black (Indian, Nigrum) Myroabalan
3. Chebulic Myrobalan
4. Emblic Myrobalan
5. Belleric Myrobalan
Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578
Left to Right: Yellow Myrobalan, Chebulic Myrobalan, Belleric Myrobalan, Emblic Myrobalan (stoned), Black Myrobalan (Adam, 2017)
Botanical name:
Phyllanthus emblica (syn Emblica officinalis)
Parts used:
Fruits, stoned
Emblic should be fleshy, with few stones, and black externally, grey within
Temperature & Taste:
Cool and dry. Sour (all tastes except Salty in Ayurveda)
Classifications:
2S. STRENGTHENING
3B. FEBRIFUGE & ANTIPYRETIC. 3D. CORDIALS & CARDIACS.
4c. CARDIAC. 4e. STOMACHIC. 4g. HEPATIC
TCM:
B. Clear Heat
Phyllanthus emblica (syn Emblica officinalis)
Parts used:
Fruits, stoned
Emblic should be fleshy, with few stones, and black externally, grey within
Temperature & Taste:
Cool and dry. Sour (all tastes except Salty in Ayurveda)
Classifications:
2S. STRENGTHENING
3B. FEBRIFUGE & ANTIPYRETIC. 3D. CORDIALS & CARDIACS.
4c. CARDIAC. 4e. STOMACHIC. 4g. HEPATIC
TCM:
B. Clear Heat
Uses:
1. Clears Heat and Bile:
-primary medicine for Heat and Bile diseases
2. Clears Heat, Moistens the Throat, Stops Cough:
-Lung Heat with dry Cough
3. Clears Stomach Heat, Benefits the Spleen:
-Indigestion, Abdominal Distention
4. Benefits Yin and Blood:
5. Sattvic,
Dose:
Decoction: 3–9 grams
Powder: 1–3 grams
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Comment:
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Decoction: 3–9 grams
Powder: 1–3 grams
Substitute:
... available in PRO version
Corrective:
... available in PRO version
Comment:
... available in PRO version
Main Combinations:
Triphala
1. Anemia, take Emblic Myrobalan, ... available in PRO version
2. Constipation, Emblic Myrobalan with ... available in PRO version
3. Hyperacidity, Gastric Ulcers, Emblic Myrobalan with ... available in PRO version
4. Heart diseases, Arrhythmia, Emblic Myrobalan with ... available in PRO version
5. Chest pain, Angina, Atherosclerosis, Emblic Myrobalan, Turmeric, Bdellium, Arjuna (Ayurveda)
6. High Cholesterol, Emblic Myrobalan with ... available in PRO version
7. Diabetes,
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Major Formulas:
Triphala
Pills for Migraine (Galen)
‘Pills without which I would not be’ (Nicholas)
Pills to Aggregate Lesser (Mesue)
Arabian Pills (Nicholas)
Electuary of Life (Arnold de Villa Nova)
Electuarium Alcharif (Mesue)
Electuary of Micleta (Nicholas)
Gallia Aloephangina (Aromatic Troches) (Mesue)
Triphala Electuary of Raisins (Unani)
Triphera of Dodder of Thyme (Mesue)
Triphala Electuary of Dodder (Unani)
Triphala Electuary of Fennel Seeds (Unani)
Triphala Electuary for Epilepsy (Itrifal Zabeeb)
Triphera Persica (Mesue)
Triphera of the Saracens (Triphera Saracenica Magna)
Triphera Minor (Triphera Phoenonis) (Mesue)
Triphala Electuary Lesser (Unani)
Triphala Electuary Greater (Unani)
Triphala Electuary to Purge Phlegm and Black Bile
Nutmeg Powder (Jatiphaladi Churna) (Ayurveda)
Frankincense 10 (Spos dkar 10) (Tibetan Medicine)
Cautions:
1. Safe and well tolerated. Sometimes causes constipation and colic which is usually corrected in formula.
2. Mesue said the only deleterious effect of the Myrobalans was their potential to create obstruction. This is why they are regularly mixed with Ghee or Oil and Honey in Ayurveda and Unani. They are also used with medicines to prevent likelihood of obstruction such as Stoechas, Indian Spikenard, Ginger or Pepper etc.
3. Pemell said they should not be used in Obstruction or Fever. They are sometimes used in formulas in these cases with appropriate medicines.
Main Preparations used:
Confected Emblic Myrobalan, Paste of fresh Emblic Myrobalan, Pickled Emblic Myrobalan
1. Safe and well tolerated. Sometimes causes constipation and colic which is usually corrected in formula.
2. Mesue said the only deleterious effect of the Myrobalans was their potential to create obstruction. This is why they are regularly mixed with Ghee or Oil and Honey in Ayurveda and Unani. They are also used with medicines to prevent likelihood of obstruction such as Stoechas, Indian Spikenard, Ginger or Pepper etc.
3. Pemell said they should not be used in Obstruction or Fever. They are sometimes used in formulas in these cases with appropriate medicines.
Main Preparations used:
Confected Emblic Myrobalan, Paste of fresh Emblic Myrobalan, Pickled Emblic Myrobalan
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'The fruit of this tree is the Dhatriphala, Amritaphala, Amalaka or Sriphala of the Nighantas, and is described as having all the properties of the chebulic myrobalan. It is used both fresh and dried; in the former condition it is considered to be refrigerant, diuretic and laxative; in the latter, astringent. It is pickled by the natives, and, on account of a peculiar flavour which it imparts, some of the forest tribes eat it. before drinking water. A sherbet of the fruit, sweetened with sugar or honey, is a favourite cooling drink for sick people; it is said to be diuretic. A country-side prescription for biliousness in the Concan is Axala, 4 massas, to be soaked all night in water, and in the morning to be pounded and mixed with a quarter seer of milk and flavoured with sugar and cumin. Emblic myrobalans are an ingredient in many compound preparations described in Sanskrit works. A selection of these prescriptions will be found in Butt's Hindu Materia Medica; the following, translated from Chakradatta, may be taken as an example:—
"Dhatri lauha.—Take of powdered Emblic myrobalans 64 tolas, prepared iron 32 tolas, liquorice powder 16 tolds, mix them together, and soak in the juice of Tinospora cordifolia seven times successively. |
This preparation is given in jaundice, anaemia and dyspepsia, in doses of from 20 to 40 grains."
Mahometan physicians esteem this myrobalan equally with the Hindus ;they describe it as astringent, refrigerant, cardiacal, and a purifier of the humors of the body. It is much prescribed by them in fluxes, and is also applied externally on account of its cooling and astringent properties. The Arabic name is Amlaj, and the Persian Amala. Ainslie states that the flowers, which have an odour resembling that of lemon peel, are supposed by the Vytians to have virtues of a cooling and aperient nature, and are prescribed in conjunction with other articles in the form of an electuary. {Mat. Ind., ii., p. 244.) In the Pharmacopoeia of India it is stated, upon the authority of Dr. M. Ross, that the root by decoction and evaporation yields an astringent extract equal to catechu, both for medicinal purposes and in the arts; the chips of the wood or small branches thrown into impure or muddy water, according to the same authority, clear it effectually. In the Concan the juice of the fresh bark, with honey and turmeric, is given in gonorrhoea. (Pharmacographia Indica, Dymock, 1893) |
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