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Triphala is a popular polyherbal drug, which has been used to treat long list of diseases in the traditional systems from the ancient times. Acharya Charaka mentioned in his text as daily consumption of the Triphala for a period of one year, is act like Rasayana, makes a person live for hundred years. Triphala is a composite mixture of three herbs Amalaki (Emblica officinalis), Haritaki (Terminalia chebula) and Vibhitali (Terminalia belerica) also known as the ‘three myrobalans’. Emblica officinalis Gaertn. belongs to Euphorbiaceae, and Terminalia chebula Retz. Terminalia bellerica belongs to Combretaceae family. The generic name ‘Terminalia’ comes from Latin word ‘terminus’ or ‘terminalis’ (ending), and refers to the habit of the leaves being crowded or borne on the tips of the shoots. Throughout the world, there are lot of studies carried out on this, well established the knowledge and documented. Triphala is rich in Vitamin-C, gallic acid, ellagic acid, chebulic acid, bellericanin, β-sitosterol and Flavonoids etc and a potent laxative, immumo modulator, antioxidant, antimicrobial, traditionally been used in eye diseases, stress, arthritis, colon diseases, etc. Present paper deals with antioxidant effect of individual plants and its combination (Triphala).
Pundareekaksha Rao P (Tue,) studied this question.