Health Benefits of Amla and its usage

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Health Benefits of Amla and its usage
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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.

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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.
• "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
  80-years-old person youthful happiness." -
  Acharya Balkrishna

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Health Benefits of Amla and its medicinal usage
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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.

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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.

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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
  10-20 grams of amla juice, 2-3 grams of pepper
  and take the mix with 2 spoons of honey, twice a
  day. It treats hiccups.