Abstract

CURRENT THERAPEUTIC APPLICATION AND PHARMACOLOGICAL ACTION OF TRIPHALA: AN UPDATED REVIEW

Nausheen Parveen* and Bhumika Chauhan

ABSTRACT

Triphala is one of the most well-known ayurvedic and important herbal formulations in the world. Triphala Rasayana contains three fruits of Phyllanthus emblica, Terminalia chebula, and Terminalia belerica in equal proportion (1:1:1). Triphala is rich in many valuable phytochemicals and contains several primary and secondary metabolites used for health benefits such as gallic acid, tannic acid, ascorbic acid, syringic acid chebulinic acid, oxalic acid, nicotinic acid, and epicatechin, etc. Triphala is used in Indian Ayurvedic medicine to treat various diseases such as asthma, constipation, chronic ulcers, anemia, jaundice, treatment of diabetes, fever, eye disease, and in many more diseases. Triphala is rich in several other properties like antioxidants, antibacterial, anti-viral, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, radioprotective effects antiaging effects, and antimutagenic. The present study focuses to provide an overview of therapeutic uses and their pharmacological action, which relates the systems biology to know the multi-targeted function of Triphala. The paper represents the role of bioactive and their relation with therapeutic action.

Keywords: Triphala, Terminalia bellirica, Terminalia chebula, Phyllanthus emblica, Rasayana, Therapeutic effects, Ayurveda, Pharmacological action.