Extract of fruit is antibacterial andantiviral. Fised oil for hair loss. Seeds used for asthma, bronchitis, biliousness. For acute bacillary dysentery taken as syrup with lemon juice. As triphala good for laxative, headache, biliousness, dyspepsia, constipation, piles, enlarged liver, ascites.
Fruit is high in pectin, phyllemblin is there.
Fresh amla contains about 20 times more vitamin C than orange juice and equal in antiscorbutic value to 1-2 oranges. Dried fruit have tannins and 3-4 colloidal complexes. Other components are phyllemblic acid, lipids, gallic acid, emblicol, mucic acid, ellagic acid, glucose. Seeds contain a fixed oil, phosphatides, some essential oil with linolenic, linoleic, oleic, stearic, palmitic, myristic acids. Proteolytic and lipolytic enzymes are in seeds.