{"id":3821,"date":"2021-08-05T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T07:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drtharangawickramasooriya.com\/ger\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2021-08-10T09:20:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T09:20:54","slug":"aralu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drtharangawickramasooriya.com\/ger\/aralu\/","title":{"rendered":"Aralu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Aralu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scientific name:<strong> <em>Terminalia<\/em><\/strong> chebula<br \/>\nFamily name: COMBRETACEAE<br \/>\nEnglish name: Chebulic Myrobalan<br \/>\nLocal name: Aralu<br \/>\nSanskrit name: Harithaki \/ Abhaya<br \/>\nConservation status: LC (NCS)-2012<br \/>\nDescription: 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 \u00d7 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 \u00d7 1.2-2.5 cm, rigid , becoming deeply wrinkled when dry, glabrous.<br \/>\nStatus: Native<br \/>\nEdible parts: Seed leaf\/ Cotyledon<br \/>\nAyurvedic Treatments- Dental caries<br \/>\nBleeding gums<br \/>\nFevers<br \/>\nEye diseases<br \/>\nPiles<br \/>\nDropsy<br \/>\nSores<br \/>\nChronic dysentery<br \/>\nWorm infestation<br \/>\nSwellings<br \/>\nHemorrhoids<br \/>\nJaundice<br \/>\nColds<br \/>\nCoughs<br \/>\nCatarrh<br \/>\nAnorexia<br \/>\nFlatulence<br \/>\nAbdominal discomfort<br \/>\nEczemas<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>PARTS USED IN TREATMENT:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pericarp of the fruit<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>RELATED MEDICINAL PROPERTIES:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cardio tonic<br \/>\nPurgative<br \/>\nStimulate liver functions<br \/>\nDiuretic<br \/>\nPacifies vitiated thridoshas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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