Aralu
Scientific name: Terminalia chebula
Family name: COMBRETACEAE
English name: Chebulic Myrobalan
Local name: Aralu
Sanskrit name: Harithaki / Abhaya
Conservation status: LC (NCS)-2012
Description: Trees to 30 m tall; branchlets conspicuously white or yellowish long lenticellate , glabrous, hairs tawny , rarely silvery. Leaves alternate or subopposite, spaced along branchlets; petiole 1-3 cm long, with 2(-4) glands 1-5 mm below apex; leaf blade 7-18 × 4.5-10 cm, glabrous. Inflorescences axillary or terminal , simple spikes, 5-10 cm long, numerous flowered, sometimes grouped at branchlet apex and forming a panicle. Flowers slightly fragrant, bisexual. Fruit not stipitate , blackish brown when ripe , ovoid or broadly so, ellipsoid , or cylindric-ovoid, obtusely 5-ridged, 2-4.5 × 1.2-2.5 cm, rigid , becoming deeply wrinkled when dry, glabrous.
Status: Native
Edible parts: Seed leaf/ Cotyledon
Ayurvedic Treatments- Dental caries
Bleeding gums
Fevers
Eye diseases
Piles
Dropsy
Sores
Chronic dysentery
Worm infestation
Swellings
Hemorrhoids
Jaundice
Colds
Coughs
Catarrh
Anorexia
Flatulence
Abdominal discomfort
Eczemas
PARTS USED IN TREATMENT:
Pericarp of the fruit
RELATED MEDICINAL PROPERTIES:
Cardio tonic
Purgative
Stimulate liver functions
Diuretic
Pacifies vitiated thridoshas
