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Amla, also known as Indian gooseberry is the secret to thick, shiny, healthy hair of many Indian women. A potent antioxidant and an important health rejuvenator when taken internally, amla is a popular Ayurvedic remedy for many health conditions. Applied topically, amla is an excellent hair rejuvenator. A very nourishing herb it prevents scalp infections, hair loss, and premature greying. It also adds lustre and shine to hair due to its astringent nature. Learn more about how to use amla for healthy hair here. |
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Amla in Ayurveda |
Ayurveda describes amla as a cooling, astringent, digestive, laxative, stomachic, and aphrodisiac medicine. It also has anti-pyretic, anti-inflammatory and diuretic properties. Due to its numerous therapeutic effects on various organs and systems, it has been found to be useful in problems ranging from chest diseases such as cough, asthma, and bronchitis, digestive ailments like dyspepsia, hyperacidity and ulcers and anaemia, jaundice, diabetes, bleeding conditions, eye diseases, allergic and other skin problems to gynaecological problems. |
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. |
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Amla (Indian gooseberry) in Other Languages |