Amla is the best medicine. It cures diseases caused due to old age . That is why it is called Amritphal, Dhatriphal, etc. in Ayurveda. In Ayurveda it is called Amrit Phal or Dhatriphal. According to Maharshi Charak, being cool in nature, Amla is recognised as a Rasayan and its use gives us long life, it keeps away the problems of old age, and in Ayurveda it has been described as Amrit Phal or Dhatri Phal. Given its best health aspects it is used in almost all problems.

External form

Its size is from small to medium, 8-18 metre high, its bark is greenish grey, thin and the stems are a bit long, and leaves seem to be like tamarind. Its flower's stem is long, and are found in yellow bunches, fruits are round and spherical in shape and its diameter could be 1/2-1 inch, fleshy and yellowish in colour. When they are ripe then they can become red. Six lines are found on the fruits which divide in six parts. Six angular seeds are found in side the fruit. Flowers come between March and June and fruits come between November and March.

Ayurvedic Properties

Its fruit is grahi, good for urination, purifies blood, good for taste and effective in the diseases like dysentery, diarrhoea, acidity, jaundice, hepatitis b, piles, constipation, indigestion, breathing related diseases, cough, etc. It gives good eye sight, cures Tridosh, strengthens sperm, gives long life. Its acid curers gastric, sweet and cool nature cures pitta problem and rough and stringent taste cures cough problems. Amla also cures leprosy, fever, etc. It cures cough and pitta, also cures prameh and leprosy and a best medicine for eye problems.

• It keeps heart healthy and gives strength to blood. It is also helpful in pregnancy.

   

• It also cures Agnideepak and uneven fever.

Medicinal use For hair

Take 30 gm dry Amla, 10 gm Bahera, 50 gm kernel of mango seed and iron powder 10 gm and soak them in a pot in the night and next morning apply it on your hair as a paste. This will cure the problem of greying hair at an early age.
For other hair problems

• Take Amla, Ritha and Shikakai and make their tea and then apply them on the hair to wash it. This will give you thick, dark and long hair. Keshkanti oil is also very effective for this purpose.

   

• Crush kernels of Amala and mango together and keep it stored and apply daily in your hairs and it will make your hair strong from roots.

   

• Palitya: Take Lauha Bhasma and Amla Powder and make paste of Gurhal flower and apply this paste daily in your hair before bathing. This prevents untimely graying.

Eye, nose and mouth diseases

• Eye problems: Apply amla fruit juice in  eyes cures pain of eyes and if apply it from fruit ripe on the tree, it is useful in all problems. If you rub Amla seeds and apply in  eyes is also very useful.

   

• Eighty-four gm yellow Haritika Twak, 12-12 gm of peepali and pepper and treat in 400 ml of Amla extract and then crush them and apply in eyes, it is useful in Netrpushpa, Timir, etc. and also cures pain.

   

• Take 20-50 gm Amla and crush them well and then boil them in 1/2 kg water for two hours and then filter the water well. Then to this and apply thrice in your eyes. It is very effective in eye problems.

   

• Swelling in eyes: Make a hole in Amla fruit still on the tree and collect the liquid which comes out of it and apply around external area of your eyes. It cures swelling in the dry part of the eye.

      If Amla extract is poured in eyes or take 4 ml of drumstick leaves extract and  mixing 250 mg of Saindhav salt and if applied, it cures Abhishyandi.

   

• Netraphuli: Take 7 gm Amla and crush it well and soak it in cool water, after 2-3 hours squiz them in the same pot and leave other Amlas to be soaked in the same pot. Repeat the process again after 2-3 hours. Do this for 3-4 times, then apply this water in your eyes. It cures your problem...

   

• Nakseer: Take Jambul, mango and Amla and make their fine powder and apply on your forehead. This will stop bleeding from your nostrils.

   

• Change in voice: Take Ajmoda, turmeric, Amla, Yakshwar, Chitrak in equal quantity, its 1-2 gm powder should be should be mixed with two spoons of honey and one spoon of ghee and should be licked. This will cure your problem.

   

• Hiccups: Take 10-20 gm Amla juice, 2-3 gm pipper powder, two spoons of honey, and use it twice a day. It will cure your problem of hiccups.

      Take 10-20 ml of Amla extract add 2-3 gm Peepali powder and two spoons of honey and take twice a day. It cures hiccups and asthma and other respiration problems.

Stomach problems

• Vomiting: In hiccups and vomiting, take 10-20 ml juice juice added with 5-10 gm sugar crystal and if it is administered to the patient, it will prove to be effective. It can be given 2-3 times.

   

• Chhardi is caused due to Tridosh. Make paste of Amla, Daakh added with 40 gm raw sugar, 40 gm honey and 160 gm water and then filter is with the help of fine piece of cotton and then you should drink it.

   

• Take 20 ml of Amla extract and add one spoon of honey and two gm of white chandan powder and administer the patient it is very useful.

Acidity

• 1-2 nug fresh Amla should be taken added with sugar crystal or 25 gm Amla should be mixed with equal quantity of honey and should be administered in the morning and evening, it will cure acidity.

   

• Take 10 gm seeds of Amla and soak it in water in the night and next day make its paste in cow milk and mix this paste in 250 gm cow milk. If this medicine is taken, it will prove to be very effective in excess acidity problem.

   

• Sangrahani: Take fenugreek seeds and make tea with Amla leaves  and administer 10-20 ml twice a day. It is very useful.

   

• Virechanartha: In  Raktapitta disease, especially one who have to clear their stomach, for them take 20-40 Amla extract and add sufficient honey and sugaar and use it. It is very useful.

Constipation

• In case of indigestion caused due to enlarged liver, headache, constipation, piles, etc. Triphala made of Amla is very useful. Take 3-6 gm Triphala churna with lukewarm water in the night as it cures constipation.

   

• Raktatisar: In Raktatisaar, if one has excess of bleeding then take 10-20 ml of amla extract and ten gm of honey and five grams of Ghee and administer it and also give one hundred ml of goat milk and give three times a day.

   

• Rakta gulma: Take some Amla juice and add some pepper in it and if it is taken by the patient then the problem will be cured.

   

• Mandagani: First take roasted Amla and grate it and add pepper, dry ginger, Sendha salt, roasted jeera and Hing and dry in shades and then use it as it gives good hunger and cures lck of hunger problem.

   

• Atisaar: Take 5-6 Amla and make paste in water and apply around navel but not on navel and fill navel with ginger extract.

   

• Take 10-12 gm soft leaves of Amla and make its paste and take with butter milk, it cures indigestion and it is also useful in Atisaar.

Anus problems

Piles

•  Make paste of Amla well and apply it on an earthen pot. Then fill this pot with butter milk and should be given to the patient for drinking. It will be effective in this problem.

   

• When you have excess bleeding from your piles then mix 3-8 gm Amla powder with curd cream and administer for 2-3 times a day. It will be very effective.

Liver -splin diseases

•  Jaundice; Make Amla sauce or Chatney and add some honey in it and use it as it is useful in weak liver and jaundice.

   

• Acute jaundice: Take 125-250 mg Lauhbhasma and take it with 1-2 Amla, it will cure your problem besides it is also useful in anaemia.

Urine related problem

• Take fresh bark of Amla, add 10-20 of its extract and 2 gm turmeric and drink it in the morning and evening. The problem will be cured.

   

• Take 20 ml extract of Amla and add some Ilaichi powder in it and take 2-3 times a day, it cures problem related to discharge in urine.

Prameh

• Take Amla, Harad, Bahera, Nagar Motha, Daruhaldi, Devdaru in equal quantity and make their Kwath or tea and administer it to patients 10-20 gm in the morning and evening. The problem will be cured.

   

• Mutraghat: Take 5-6 Amla and make its paste and apply it on BASTI area, it cures such problems. 

Reproduction system diseases:

• Shukrameha: Take Amla fruit without kernel 10 gm and add double quantity of crystal sugar and with 220 ml water take for 15 days, it cures night fall, Shukrameh, etc. related problems.

   

• Bleeding leukorrhea: Take 20 ml of amla extract and add one gram of cumin powder and take two-three times. If fresh amla is not available then soak 20 gm of dry amla in water in the night and use it after filtering it. In Peetprakop related problems it is useful.

White leukorrhea

• Take 20-30 gm seeds of Amla and make its paste with water and filter its water, add two spoons of honey in it and powder of sugar and administer it to the patient. The problem will be cured.

   

• Burning sensation in vagina: Take 20 ml Amla juice and add 5 gm honey in it besides 10 gm sugar and if this is taken by the patient the problem will be cured.

• Sujaak: Take 2-5 gm of Amla powder and mix in one glass of water and administer to patient and use this water to wash affected part, it cures wound and prevents gradually release of pus.

Joint boan diseases:

• Arthritis: Take 20 gm dry Amla and 20 gm jiaggery and boil them in 500 gm water and when the water is only 250 gm in the pot, then filter it well and give it to patient to drink in the morning and evening. It will be very effective. Remember that during its use don't use salt in your meal.

   

• Vaatrakta: Take Ghee treated with Amla extract, 10-20 ml and it is useful in this problem. If one has intense cough in Vaatcough then take 50 ml tea of amla and turmeric adding 10 gm honey is very useful.

   

• Skin diseases: Neem  leaves and Amla with ghee should be used regularly as it cures many skin diseases like sour, Koth, pitti rog, itching, raktapitta and Khaj.

   

• Visarpa: Take 10-20 ml. extract of Amla and add 10 gm ghee in itand administer 2-3 times a day. It is verey useful.

   

• Leprosy: Take equal quantities of Amla and Neem leaves and make their fine powder and take with 2-6 or 10 gm with honey. It is useful even in acute form of this problem. 

   

• Leukoderma: For a long time daily take Amla and Khadir 10-20 ml kwath and mix 2-4 gm of Bakuchi powder and administer the patient. It is very useful.

   

• Sheetpitta: Take 10 gm of Amla powder and equal quantity of jaggary together and eat. It is very useful.

   

• Visarp: Take 25 gm of Amla extract aand add six gm of ghee and drink and if the problem is acute then add six grams of Nishoth roots, this cures the problem.

   

• Masurika: In Sheetala disease, if one has sore in throat and mouth then take equal quantities of amla and mulethi and make 10-20 ml tea and take with honey by taking Gandus.

   

• Heat spot: Soak amla for seven  days in cow urineand make paste in goat milk and apply on affected  part. It is useful.

   

• Sore: Apply amla leaves extract on sore as it  is very useful.

   

• Knife stab: If some one has such a wound then take Amla extract and apply on wound. It is very useful.

• Pama: Take Sindoor, Amla extract, sulpher, blue vitrious and cook in amla extract and mix in cow ghee and apply. It is cured.

Whole body diseases

• Vaatrakta: Amla, Turmeric and moth should be taken and make tea 10-20 ml. and add two spoons of honey and take three times. The problem is cured.

• Pitta-shool: Take 2-5 Grams of Amla powder and add one spoon of honey in it and take daily while empty stomach. It cures the problem.

   

• Cough fever: Take Motha, Indrajau, Harad, Bahera, Amla, Kutaki and falsa tea and take its 10-30 ml. It is useful.

   

• Raktapitta: Take 10-20 ml Amla juice and add two gram turmeric and one spoon of honey and administer three times. It is useful in this problem.

   

• Jwardosh: Take Amla, jasmine leaves, Nagarmotha and Jwasa in equal quantities and make tea and add 1/4th of jaggaary and use it. It cures fever.

   

• Pittajwar: Take extract of ripe Amla and pulp should be crushed  and when it is thick then add juice in it. Then make its  small balls then turn it in powder.This is useful in Pittajawar problem. Take its 2 grams daily twice a day. It cures anxiety, thirst and pittajwar, etc.

   

• Shramdaah; In 100 ml tea of Amla add 10 gm  of jaggary and drink it as it is useful in tiredness, burn ,pain, Raktapitta, etc.

   

• Pittarog: Take Murabba of Amla, 1-2 Nug every morning empty stomach. The problem is cured.