Emblica Officinalis Fruit Dry Extract

Introduction :
Amla is one of the most often used herb in ayurveda. It has a reputation as a powerful rejuvenating herb. The Amla fruit is reputed to have the highest content of vitamin C than any other naturally occurring substance in nature.

Organic Amla is good for almost everyone on a regular basis. Research shows that 8.75mg of natural vitamin C complex from Amla is equivalent to 100mg of the most commonly used synthetic vitamin C. Amla possesses the highest level of heat and storage-stable vitamin C known to man.

Plant Description :
Amla is a medium-sized deciduous tree with gray bark and reddish wood which successfully grows in variable agro-climatic and soil conditions. Amla leaves are feathery, linear oblong in shape and smell like lemon. The flowers are greenish yellow in colour which starts appearing in the beginning of spring season. The matured tree can tolerate a high temperature of 45øC as well as a freezing temperature. Thus, it is not much influenced by hot winds and frost. It is a potential crop which grows in the marginal soils and various kinds of degraded lands such as salt-affected soils, salines and dry and semi-dry regions. Amla tree is found growing in the plains and sub-mountain on tracts all over the India and Indian subcontinent.

Benefits of Amla :

• Amla is "Sattwic" (stimulates spiritual purity).
• Amla Increases "OJAS"(the subtle essence of living matter, the foundation of good health, mental sanity, and spiritual growth).
• The edible fruit tissue of Organic Amla contains protein concentration 3-fold and ascorbic acid concentration 160-fold than those of apples. This fruit also contains considerably higher concentration of most minerals and amino acids than apples.
• Organic Amla juice has twenty times more vitamin C than orange juice.
• Organic Amla is used as cosmetic in India. It is an accepted hair tonic in traditional recipes for enriching hair growth and pigmentation.
• Amla has been regarded as a sacred tree in India. The tree was worshipped as Mother Earth and is believed to nurture humankind because the fruits are very nourishing.

Actions and Uses
The fruit is used as a Diuretic, Laxative, Hair dyes, Detergent, Shampo. It is also used as a Cardioprotective, useful in hemorrhage, menprrhagia, leucorrhoea, discharge of blood from uterus. Poultice used to stop bleeding from cuts.The fermented fruit liquor, it is used in jaundice, dyspepsia, cough, indigestion, anemia, heart complaints, promotion of urination. The emblica officinalis juice with Lemon, it is used to arrest acute bacillary dysentery.