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Emblic (āṃvalā) is listed among very sour fruits said to pacify vata, provoke blood, produce pitta and kapha, be heavy and unctuous, cause salivation, cleanse impurities and be sharp.

A milk pudding (payasa) of ripe amalaki fruit and shatavari root with cow's ghee, taken always, is said to make both eyes keen like those of Garuda.

A clear amalaki decoction with ghee, sugarcane juice, milk and drugs of the cooling group is said to remove strong pitta vomiting.

Equal parts of amalaki, gokshura, dates, priyala, liquorice, blue lotus, bharangi and long pepper are powdered and taken with ghee and sugar on a milk diet; this is said to destroy cough…

A patient with urinary disease drinks amalaki juice, one kuduba (16 tola), alone or mixed with sugarcane juice.

A cold infusion or decoction of amla, nut grass, hribera and coriander with plenty of sugarcane juice, drunk in the morning with triphala and ghee, is said by the experts to pacify all…

Amalaki fruit is cooked with goat's milk, dried, powdered and eaten mixed with plenty of sugar. Alternatively the roots of uccaṭā (the commentary: चिंचोकतृण, उटंगण) and gokshura are taken,…

A footnote to the triphala rasāyana says the verse does not state the numbers of amalaki and bibhitaki properly, but other medical works say that where triphala is mentioned generally it is…

Amalaki powder is soaked with amalaki juice and dried (this is called bhāvanā), then well impregnated with milk. The impregnated powder, mixed with an equal amount of khand sugar, is eaten…

Amalaki cooked with goat's milk, dried, powdered and eaten with plenty of sugar, or the roots of uccaṭā and gokshura (the commentary: taken with the amalaki rasāyana), are said to make…

Oil cooked with the juices of bhringaraja and amalaki is given as nasya by the rule; gargles, soups, held liquids and smoking with suitable drug groups are also used.

Antimony collyrium (surma), amalaki, jujube and parched rice, soaked in ghee and jaggery, are given to hiccup patients to eat.

Amalaki powder soaked with its own juice and dried (bhāvanā), then impregnated with milk, is eaten mixed with an equal amount of khand, with milk drunk after it, and is said to increase…

Abhaya is called a kindler of the digestive fire. Amalaki is described as pure and the best of fruits, and as very cold like snow, while abhaya is very hot; this is said to be the…

For pitta and blood coryza, ghee cooked with bitter, amalaki and sweet drugs is called beneficial; the commentary reads bitter, sour and sweet tastes.

A powder of jujube kernel and amalaki seed kernel mixed with sugar, given to eat, is called very beneficial in vomiting.

Equal parts of chakramarda, amalaki, rock salt, bakuchi and bhushirisha, ground fine with alkali water, milk, buttermilk or salt water, are rubbed on or applied for kitibha, dadru, kachchhu…

A paste of patha, ajamoda, black pepper, amalaki and haritaki is drunk in warm water in the ama stage of kapha diarrhoea.

हिन्दी: बांसा, अडूसा, बसौंटा, [न] कर्करा · मराठी: आंवळी, अडूळसा

Putting amalaki's own juice into amalaki powder and drying it is called bhāvanā (impregnation).

Talisa, black pepper, dry ginger, long pepper and cinnamon with cardamom in parts of one to five, powdered and bound with jaggery into balls the size of an amalaki, eaten for cough, upward…

Amalaki is eaten in the morning at mealtime, and one haritaki with bibhitaki at night; the commentary makes this three amalaki in the morning and one haritaki and two bibhitaki at night,…

Pratishyaya (coryza) arises when vata, kapha, pitta and blood lodged in the head are provoked singly or together. It has a prodrome, five kinds and a neglected, vitiated form, and if…