The Materia Medica of the Hindus, compiled from Sanskrit Medical Works c5.s10.t9.19

c5.s10.t9.19

Chebulic myrobalans are described as laxative, stomachic, tonic and alterative. They are used in fevers, cough, asthma, urinary diseases, piles, intestinal worms, chronic diarrhœa, costiveness, flatulence, vomiting, hiccup, heart diseases, enlarged spleen and liver, ascites, skin diseases, etc. In combination with emblic and belleric myrobalans, and under the name of triphalá or the three myrobalans, they are extensively used as adjuncts to other medicines in almost all diseases.