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Botanical Name :
Terminalia
chebula
Sanskrit Name :
Haritaki
English Name :
Chebulic Myrobalan
Family : Combretaceae
Part Used: Fruits, Roots, Bark
Description of
Terminalia chebula:
T.chebula
is a tree with a rounded crown and spreading branches. The bark
is dark-brown, often longitudinally cracked; the leaves are
ovate or elliptic with a pair of large glands at the top of the
petiole; the flowers are yellowish white, in terminal spikes;
the drupes are ellipsoidal, obovoid or ovoid, yellow to
orange-brown and hard when ripe, becoming 5-ribbed on drying;
the seeds are hard and pale yellow. |
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Principal
Constituents:
Chebulagic, chebulinic acid and corilagin.
Medicinal
Uses:
It is astringent, purgative, stomachic and laxative. It is
useful in asthma, piles and cough. It is also useful in healing
of wounds and scalds. It is used as gargle against inflammation
of mucous membrane of mouth. It is used in tanning of leather
and purification of petroleum.
Specification:
Standardized to customer Specification
Herbal Extract packing:
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