The efficacy and function of Amla

Ammola is a traditional Chinese medicinal material. This type of medicine can cover many aspects of disease treatment, so before choosing Ammola, you must have a good understanding of it. Let us introduce it in detail below.

[Alias] Emblica officinalis (Linhai Yiwuzhi), Emblica officinalis (Tang Materia Medica), Amla fruit (Compendium of Materia Medica), Amla fruit (Chinese Tree Taxonomy), Olea europaea (Flora of Guangzhou), Oxeye balsam pear (Nanning Medicinal Spring), Olive (Sichuan Chinese Materia Medica), Throat balsam pear, Fishwood fruit (Guangxi Medicinal Plant List), Yunnan olive (Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine Selection).

[Source] It is the fruit of the Euphorbiaceae plant Euphorbia pulcherrima . Harvest the fruits when they are ripe in September and October and dry them in the sun.

[Original form] Oil orange (Records of Medicinal Herbs in Lingnan) is a deciduous shrub or small tree, up to 7 meters in height. The leaves are alternate on slender twigs, almost sessile, densely grown in two distinct rows, very similar to pinnate leaves; the leaf blades are linear-rectangular, about 1 cm long, with obtuse tips; the stipules are linear-lanceolate. The flowers are small, yellow, monoecious, with short petioles, clustered in leaf axils; sepals are 5 to 6, obovate-rectangular, less than 2 mm long; petals are absent; male flowers are petiolate, very numerous, with very small glands on the disk, 3 to 5 anthers, oblong, erect on a short column; female flowers are nearly sessile, often growing alone with male flowers in the upper leaf axils, with the ovary half hidden in a ring-shaped disk. The fruit is fleshy, about 1.5 cm in diameter, round and slightly hexagonal, yellow-green at first and turns red when ripe. Flowering period is from April to May.

[Habitat distribution] Distributed in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Taiwan and other places.

[Properties] The dried fruit is round or irregularly round, slightly six-petaled, with a diameter of about 2 cm; the surface is brown, rough, with small wart-like protrusions, and there are dot-shaped traces of the fruit stalk at the base. The texture is solid and not easy to break. After breaking, the inside appears yellowish white. The seeds are not large. It has a slight odor and tastes sweet and astringent. The best ones are dry, plump, and without stalks or leaves.

[Chemical composition] The fruit contains a large amount of vitamin C (1.0-1.8%), and the content is stable. It also contains tannins, including glucogallic acid, gallic acid, tannin tantalum, protochebulic acid, chebulic acid, chebulic acid, and 3,6-digalloylglucose. The dried fruit contains 4-9% mucic acid. The peel contains phenolic acids such as gallic acid and citric acid. The seeds contain about 26% fixed oil, including 8.8% linoleic acid, 44% linoleic acid, 28.4% oleic acid, 2.2% stearic acid, 3.0% palmitic acid, 1% myristic acid, etc.

[Pharmacological action] The dried fruit is first extracted with 80% alcohol, then with ether, and then acidified with hydrochloric acid to obtain a good antibacterial active substance; it has inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi, Salmonella paratyphi, Escherichia coli and Shigella dysenteriae, but has no effect on fungi.

【Nature and flavor】 Bitter, sweet, cold.

【Meridian】 "Sichuan Chinese Medicine Annals": "enters the spleen and stomach meridians."

【Functions and indications】Expectorant, promoting salivation, relieving cough and detoxifying. Treat colds, fever, cough, sore throat, diphtheria, restlessness, heat and dry mouth.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 2 to 4 qian. For external use: mash the juice and apply.

[Additional prescription] ① For treating cold, fever, cough, sore throat, dry mouth, thirst, and vitamin C deficiency: 10 to 30 fresh emblica fruits. Decoction in water. (Guangzhou Army "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines")

[Remarks] The roots (Oil-Gan root), bark (Oil-Gan bark) and leaves (Oil-Gan leaf) of this plant are also used for medicinal purposes, each of which is described in detail in a separate article.

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

The above are some basic functions of Amla introduced to you, as well as the method of eating Amla, so that you will not use it wrongly when eating it, and you can also make better use of the value of Amla.