Zibyu

ဇီးျဖဴ
Emblica officinalis Gaertn.
စိတ္၀င္စားသူမ်ား၊ ေလ့လာခ်င္သူမ်ားအတြက္ ျမန္မာ့တိုင္းရင္းေဆးပင္ေတြထဲက ဇီးျဖဴပင္အေၾကာင္းကို ပထမဆံုးအေနနဲ့ ေဖာ္ျပေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ေနာင္လဲ ဒီလိုေဆးပင္အေၾကာင္းမ်ားကို အလ်ဥ္းသင့္သလို ေဖာ္ျပေပးသြားမွာပါ။

officinalis Gaertn.
Euphorbiaceae
Myanmar name : Zibyu (ဇီးျဖဴ)
English name: Indian gooseberry, Emblic myrobalan.

Description
A deciduous tree with spreading branches, bark flaking, greenish grey, branchlets slender, pubescent. Leaves closely set along the branchlets, equal and symmetrically arranged, like the leaflets of pinnate leaf, light green, glabrous, narrowly linear, subsessile. Inflorescence raceme in axillary fascicles on branchlets; flowers yellow or greenish yellow, male flowers numerous, on short slender pedicles. Female flowers few, subsessile, disk absent in male flower, a lacerate cup in female flower. Fruit flesh, globose with 6 obscure lobed, pale yellow.
Distribution
Wildly grow or cultivated for its edible fruit throughout tropical zone of Myanmar.
Part(s) used
Fruit.
Indications
Menorrhagia, insomnia.
Preparation & Dosage
Regularly or frequently have fresh fruit as edible fruit for general well being. For menorrhagia, the mixture of 16 gm of fruit powder and ten times of sugar, and 2 gm of such mixture is orally taken two times a day itself or with milk. Take 25 gm of fruit powder is mixed 4 gm of honey with warm water for insomnia.
Adverse effect
It decreases milk production in lactating mother.
It also disturbs regular menstruation.
Chemical constituents
Trigalloy glucose , terchebin , corilagin , ellagic acid from fruit Seed fat contained linoleic acid 64.8% ellagic acid and lupeol from roots, Tannin from bark.
Biological Activity
Anti inflammatory activity, hepatic cholesterol lowering activity.