Health Benefits of Amla and its usage
Health Benefits of Amla and its usage
The leaves of Amla (Indian gooseberry) are called `Shat patra` and offered to Lord Shiva. According to Maharshi Charak, it is the best in its category of citrus fruits and its consumption gives miraculous results in enhancing longevity, delaying aging process and hence in ‘Ayurveda’ it is said as ‘Amrit fal’ or ‘dhatri fal’.
There are two major types of Amla. The wild berry is small and hard while the cultivated berry is large, soft with lot of pulp. The tree of Indian gooseberry is of medium height of around 20-25 feet high. Its trunk is sinuous in shape and width around 5-9 feet. Fruits are available from October to April.
Health Benefits of Amla and its medicinal usage 
Chemically, the Indian gooseberry is very rich in vitamin C. It has 20 times more vitamin C as compared to orange. It has Gallic acid, tannic acid, dextrin, sugar, albumin, cellulose and calcium in rich quantity. The constituent present in pulp and juice each 100 grams include 81.2 mg water, 0.5 mg protein, 0.1 mg fat, 0.02 mg phosphorus, 0.05 mg calcium, 1.2 mg iron, 0.2 mg each 100 grams nicotinic acid. The tannin percentage is 28 in fruit, 21 in branch, 8.9 in bark and 22 percent in leaves.
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"To enhance longevity of life take ‘Amla powder at night with ghee (clarified butter), honey or water which strengthens organs and increases digestive efficiency and youthfulness. Take 3-6 grams of `amla` powder and mix with its own juice and take with one spoon `ghee` and 2 spoons of honey followed by milk. Daily usage gives 80years-old person youthful happiness." - Acharya Balkrishna
Health Benefits of Amla and its medicinal usage
Health Benefits of Amla and its medicinal usage
Take 100 grams of ‘amla’ and mix with 10 grams of jaggery to form a decoction. Drink it regularly though each time in small quantity to get relief in aches, blood biles, dysuria and other diseases. Fresh fruit jam, in the morning empty stomach, if taken gives relief in biliary diseases. If there is any cut of knife or any other sharp object, apply fresh juice of Amla immediately, it gives immense benefits.
The fruit is digestible, diuretic, blood purifier and helps in diarrhoea, gonorrhoea, combustion, jaundice, pyrosis, eruption, paleness, blood biles, piles, constipation, indigestion, nausea, gout, cough and breath related diseases.
Health Benefits of Amla and its usage
It enhances eye sight, makes semen strong. It is ‘tridosh har’, which cures all the three ‘doshas’ (Vata pitta kapha). It treats gastric troubles, biles and ‘kapha’. It strengthens the heart. It is ‘vrishya’ (strengthens semen and gives power) and also helps in impregnation. Indian gooseberry (amla), harad (terminalia chebula), pippali (long pepper) treat all types of fevers.
Take 20-25 grams of ‘amla’, crush and boil for two hours in half kg of water. Filter it and put drops in the eyes, thrice a week. This is very beneficial in eye related diseases.
Applying the fluid which comes out from branch (when cut), around the eyes removes the dark circles near the eyes.
Health Benefits of Amla and its usage 
For nose bleeding, crush jamun (syzygium cumini), mango and amla and apply the paste on the forehead. It immediately stops the nose bleeding as a dam stops fl owing water. Take 1020 grams of `amla` juice, 2-3 grams of pepper and take the mix with 2 spoons of honey, twice a day. It treats hiccups.