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Detailed Product Description
Terminalia chebula
Botanical name:: Terminalia chebula
Family name:: Combretaceae
Common name:: Myrobalan, hardad, chebulic myrobalan
Synonyms: Chebulic myrobalam or gall nut myrobalam, harde.
Part used: Fruits, roots, bark
Habitat: Grows throughout India.
Uses: It is astringent, purgative, stomachic and laxative. It is useful in asthma, piles and cough. It is also useful in healing of wounds and scalds. It is used as gargle against inflamation of mucous membrane of mouth. It is used in tanning of leather and purification of petroleum.
Product offered: Dried big, small, big fruits without seeds
Chemical constituents: Myrobalam fruits are the important source of tannin.
The tannin of myrobalam are pyrogallol type(hydrolysable tannin)
Chebulagic acid, chebulinic acid and corilagin are the hydrolysable tannin while chebulic acid, ellagic acid and gallic acid are theother contents. It is also cantain glucose, sorbital, gentiobiose and other sugar in traces.
Uses:1) myrobalam is u
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