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Amla is used in the following forms: Decoction and Infusion
of leaves and seeds; liquor, essential oil; confection; powder;
paste and pickles. An astringent extract equal to catechu
is prepared from the root by decoction and evaporation.
As a vermifuge:
Juice of the fruit with honey is used. The recommended dose
is from 1 to 3 drachms.
To stimulate appetite
Use pickles and preserves made from the green fruits.
For irritability of the bladder, in retention of urine and
to the forehead in cephalalgia:
Use a paste of the fruit alone or with Nelumbium speciosum,
Saffron and rose water. Apply it over the affected region.
As a febrifuge and in diabetes
Use an infusion of the seeds.
For hiccup and for painful respiration
Use juice or extract of the fruit combined with honey and
pipli.
For hemorrhage, diarrhea and dysentery
Use dried fruit. A decoction prepared from the fruit combined
with T. chebula and T. belerica is useful in chronic dysentery
and biliousness, in doses of 1 oz. once or twice daily.
For diarrhea of children, a compound powder of the emblic
seed, Chitrak root, chebulic myrobalan, pipli and palelone
is given in suitable doses, according to age, in warm water
twice daily, morning and at bed time.
Tender shoots given in butter-milk cure indigestion and diarrhea;
green fresh leaves combined with curds have a similar effect.
Leaves are used as infusion with fenugreek seeds in chronic
dysentery and as a bitter tonic.
Soak one tola of the seeds in a tinned vessel during the
night. Grind it. Add cow's milk and take. This is a good remedy
for biliousness.
For anemia, jaundice and dyspepsia
Use dried fruit with iron. A fermented liquor prepared from
the root is used in jaundice, dyspepsia, cough, etc.
Take 20 to 40 grains of Dhatri Leha for anemia, jaundice
and dyspepsia.
Dhatri Arista is used for jaundice, dyspepsia, indigestion,
and cough.
For burning in the vagina.
A mixture of the fruit juice and sugar is prescribed as a
remedy for burning in the vagina. Juice of the bark combined
with honey and turmeric is a remedy for gonorrhea.
To stop nausea and vomiting
A powder of the emblic seed and red sandalwood is given with
honey to stop.
For bleeding of the nose
Seed fried in ghee and ground in conjee is applied as Lep
to the forehead to stop bleeding from the nose.
For scabies or itch
Apply the seed burnt, powdered and mixed in oil for scabies
or itch.
As a restorative invigorator
Make a powder from an equal quantity of emblic seed and root
of Withania somnifera. Add ghee and honey. Mix well. This
is a restorative invigorator, especially in winter days.
Combine half a drachm each of emblic seed and gokhru. Grind
and make them into a powder. Mix with 15 grains of essence
of Gulancha. Give this in early morning with ghee and sugar.
This is a nutrient tonic.
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