Belliric Myrobalan
Genus: Terminalia
Botanical name: Terminalia bellirica Roxb.
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit: Vibhitaki, Vibheetaka, Aksha, Kalidruma, Bhootavasa, Vibheetaki
English: Belliric myrobalan
Hindi: Baheda, Bhaira
Malayalam: Tanni, Tannikka
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
Belliric myrobalan is a tall handsome tree, with characteristic bark, 12-50 m tall. Leaves are alternately arranged or fascicled at the end of branches, elliptic or elliptic obovate, leathery, dotted, entire. Leaf tip is narrow- pointed or rounded. Leaves are 8-20 cm long, 7.5-15 cm wide, on stalks 2.15 cm long. Flowers arise in spikes in leaf axils, 5-15 cm long. Flowers are greenish yellow, 5-6 mm across, stalklesse, upper flowers of the spike are male, lower flowers are bisexual. Stamens are 3-4 mm long. Fruit is obovoid 1.5-2.5 cm in diameter, covered with minute pale pubescence, stone very thick, indistinctly 5 angled.
A will non medicine in ayurveda is tribala. One of the components of tribala is seed of tanni. Tanni is used in the preparation of medicated pills.