Terminalia chebula
Terminalia chebula
Author : Retz.
Family : Combretaceae

Habit: Large tree
Sanskrit: Haritaki, Pathya, Abhaya
English: Chebulic myrobalan
 
Description
A large, handsome tree, up to 40 m tall, with characteristic bark, buttressed trunk, broadly elliptic leaves, clustered towards the ends of branches, solitary, simple, greenish-yellow flowers in axillary spikes and brown, tomentose, globular, obscurely 5-angled fruits.
Useful part

Bark, fruits, seeds
Medicinal Uses

Anaemia, leucoderma, cough, bronchitis, insomnia, vomiting, bleedings, eye & spleen disorders, headache, skin diseases, leprosy, fevers, heart diseases, rheumatism, ulcers, general debility, diarrhoea, dysentery, cancer, blood pressure, greyness of hair, piles
Major chemical constituents

Chebulagic acid, ellagic acid and its ethyl ester, gallic acid, fructose, galactose, glucose, gallic, chebulic & ellagic acids, mannitol, rhamnose, b-sitosterol, bellericanin, protein, oxalic acid, tannins palmitic, oleic and linoleic acids