Introduction
Amla tree grows in almost all the provinces of India. Like Tulsi, Amla tree is also considered holy from religious point of view. Women also worship it. The height of Amla tree is about 6 to 8 meters. Amla leaves are about half an inch long like tamarind leaves. Its flowers are found in very small bunches of green-yellow color and the fruits are spherical and about 2.5 to 5 cm in diameter and are green-yellow in color. Ripe fruits are reddish in color. Like melon, 6 lines on the fruit symbolize 6 segments. The seed of the fruit has 6 sacs, small Amlas have less pulp, fibrous and the seed is large, small Amlas are more suitable for medicinal use.
Properties
Amla provides youth to the youth and youthful strength to the elders. Amla as a tonic is like nectar for the body and health. People who do mental work get freshness and strength in the mind by consuming Amla regularly throughout the year in any way. Drinking water after eating astringent Amla tastes sweet.
Whether Amla is green, fresh or dried old, its properties are not destroyed. Its acidity protects its properties. Amla has been given a lot of importance in Ayurveda, due to which it is considered a chemical. Chyavanprash is a famous chemical of Ayurveda, which is also used by the common man as a tonic. Due to the abundance of Amla in it, it is rich in Vitamin C. It increases the health power in the body. Vitamin is very useful for skin, eye diseases and hair. Vitamin C also plays an important role in preventing infection, keeping gums healthy, healing wounds and blood formation.
Harmful effects
Amla is harmful for the spleen, but this side effect is eliminated by consuming it with honey.
Treatment for various diseases
1. Sangrahani:
By making a decoction of its leaves with fenugreek seeds and drinking it twice a day in the amount of 10 to 20 ml, dysentery is cured.
2. Difficulty in urination (pain or burning sensation during urination):
Mixing two grams of turmeric and ten grams of honey in 10-20 ml juice of fresh bark of Amla and drinking it in the morning and evening cures dysuria. By adding cardamom powder to 20 ml juice of Amla and drinking it 2-3 times a day, dysuria is cured.
3. Arsh (Piles):
Grind Indian gooseberries well and apply on an earthen pot. Then fill that pot with buttermilk and make the patient drink it, this gives relief in piles.
In case of excessive bleeding from piles, 3 to 8 grams of Indian gooseberry powder should be consumed with cream of curd 2-3 times a day.
Take 20 grams of dry Indian gooseberry powder and mix it in 250 ml of water and soak it in an earthen pot overnight. Next day morning, rub it with hands and filter it and mix 5 grams of Chirchita root powder and 50 grams of sugar candy in the filtered water and drink it. By drinking this, piles are cured in a few days and the warts dry up and fall off.
Grind the dry Indian gooseberry finely and drink 1 spoon of it every morning and evening by mixing it in milk or buttermilk, this cures bleeding piles. Take 1 spoon of fine powder of Indian gooseberry with 1 cup of buttermilk 3 times a day. Consume Indian gooseberry powder with one spoon of curd or cream thrice a day.
4. Spermatorrhea:
Mix twice the amount of sugar candy in 10 grams of powder of seedless Indian gooseberry dried in the sun. Taking it continuously for 15 days with 250 ml of fresh water is sure to be beneficial in diseases like nocturnal emission (nightfall), spermatorrhea etc.
5. Bloody diarrhea:
If there is excessive bleeding with diarrhea, then mix 10 grams of honey and 5 grams of ghee in 10-20 ml of Indian gooseberry juice and give it to the patient and then give 100 ml of goat milk 3 times a day.
6. Hematoma (blood clots):
By adding black pepper to Indian gooseberry juice and drinking it, hematoma is cured.
7. Prameha (Sperm Disorder):
Make decoction of amla, harad, behada, nagar-motha, daru-haldi, deodar in equal quantity and give it to the patient of Prameha in the morning and evening in the quantity of 10-20 ml.
Take amla, giloy, neem bark, parwal leaf in equal quantity of 50 grams each and soak them in half a kilo of water overnight. Boil it in the morning, when it remains one fourth of the quantity while boiling, add 2 teaspoons of honey to it and consume it 3 times a day, Pittaj Prameha gets cured.
8. Pitta Dosha:
Mixing amla juice, honey, cow ghee in equal quantity and consuming it cures eye diseases caused by pitta dosha and blood disorder.
9. Urinary Dysentery (Somrog):
Consuming one ripe banana, 10 ml amla juice, 5 grams honey, 250 ml milk together cures Somrog.
10. Leucorrhoea:
Grind 20-30 grams of amla seeds with water, filter the water, add 2 teaspoons honey and powdered sugar candy to it and drink it, it cures leucorrhoea.
Mix 3 grams of powdered amla and 6 grams of honey and take it once daily for 1 month, it cures leucorrhoea. Avoid sour things.
Dry the amla, grind it well and make a fine powder, then drink 3 grams of this powder every morning and evening for about 1 month, it cures leucorrhoea in women.
11. Digestive disorders:
Mash the cooked Indian gooseberries, add black pepper, dry ginger, rock salt, roasted cumin seeds and asafoetida in it, dry it in the shade and consume it. This cures anorexia (loss of appetite), indigestion and constipation and increases appetite.
12. Severe dysentery:
Grind 5-6 Indian gooseberries in water and apply it around the navel of the patient, avoiding its plate and fill the plate with ginger juice. This remedy cures even the most difficult diarrhoea, which is as fast as the speed of a fierce river.
13. Mutraghat (presence of semen in urine):
Grind 5-6 Indian gooseberries and apply it on the semen ducts to cure the disease of urinary dysentery.
14. Vaginal burning, swelling and itching:
Make a mixture of 20 ml gooseberry juice, 10 grams honey and 5 grams sugar candy, then drinking this ends the burning sensation in the vagina.
Adding sugar to gooseberry juice and using it in the morning and evening once a day eliminates the burning sensation in the vagina.
Grind gooseberry and mix 10 grams of its powder with 10 grams of sugar candy and consume it as a dose once a day in the morning and evening, eliminates the burning sensation in the vagina.
A woman who has burning sensation and itching in her private parts (vagina) gets relief by consuming gooseberry juice with honey.
