Talk:Phyllanthus emblica/Archive 1

Neutrality and accuracy of medicinal section
This has a large chunk written entirely from a POV that Ayurvedic medicine is true. Needs work on WP:NPOV. Gordonofcartoon 02:00, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

This website: http://www.itmonline.org/arts/amla.htm disputes whether Vitamin C is a major constituent of Indian gooseberry. It cites the following academic paper:

Ghosal S, Triethi VK, and Chauhan S, Active xconstituents of Emblica officinalis: Part 1.-The chemistry and antioxidative effects of two new hydrolysable tannins, Emblicanin A and B, Indian Journal of Chemistry 1996; 35B: 941-948 68.160.125.236 04:46, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Odor
Would someone who is familiar with both amla and durian please confirm that they have similar odors? It may be worth mentioning in the article if true, because the odor of durian is rather uniquely pungent.

The reason I ask is, I have some digestive enzyme supplements that contain Amla, and I swear they smell very much like durian. There's no mistaking it. However, I'm not sure if it's the Amla contributing to the smell, or some other ingredient. =Axlq 04:15, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

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Title section
This article is a great example of the problem with Wikipedia. Self-styled experts who come in and delete changes based on nothing except their fancy. Who put "Native Americans" next to the title? This plant is indigenous to India!! Its not been used by Native Americans!!Phytogreen (talk) 17:17, 4 December 2008 (UTC)Phytogreen

Citation so Ancient chinese med. use could be added?
Special:Contributions/91.20.222.71User_talk:91.20.222.71(page does not exist) (I added the Chinese name. It is used in Traditional Chinese Medicine and mentioned in documents as old as the Tang-Dynasty (618-906))

Above pasted from changes history  Trev M ~  14:34, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Changing project importance to Mid
This plant appears to have a long and significant history of cultivation in many cultures, and there is contemporary interest in it as a medicinal plant so I'm putting up to Mid importance.  Trev M ~  05:16, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Section Traditional uses of amlaki should be revised
The title introduces a new foreign word: amlaki. This word is not used anywhere else on the page. It could be added to the synonyms on top of the page, and the header could be changed to just 'Traditional uses'. It IS about the Indian gooseberry, is it not? Also, is the use of Indian translation absolutely neccessary? The medicinal section contains many Indian words. To me, this adds nothing and makes the section pretty unreadable. LadyXochi (talk) 06:43, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Non-English vernacular names
Moved from the article as unnecessary for the English encyclopedia and not recommended per WP:NOTCATALOG. --Zefr (talk) 19:01, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Names for this plant in various languages include: lozü in Ao languages halïlaj or ihlïlaj (اهليلج هليلج) in Arabic amlakhi in Assamese balakka in Batak language, an Indonesian language amloki (আমলকী) in Bengali amlai (आमलाइ) in Bodo language anmole (庵摩勒) in Chinese ambare (अमबरे) in Garo language āmla (આમળાં) in Gujarati ānvalā (आँवला) in Hindi kantout Prei (កន្ទួតព្រៃ) in Khmer bettada nellikaayi ಬೆಟ್ಟದ ನೆಲ್ಲಿಕಾಯಿ (ನೆಲ್ಲಿ / ನೆಲ್ಲಿಕಾಯಿ) in Kannada sohmylleng in Khasi āvāḷo (आवाळो) in Konkani mak kham bom in Lao melaka (ملاك) in Malay, A state in Malaysia, Malacca was named after this tree. nelli (നെല്ലി) in Malayalam heikru in Meitei āvaḷā (आवळा) (or awla) in Marathi sunhlu in Mizo zee phyu thee (ဆီးၿဖဴသီး) in Myanmar amalā (अमला) in Nepali

anlaa (ଅଁଳା) in Oriya

suaklu in Paite

aula (ਔਲਾ) in Punjabi

amalika (अमलिक) in Sanskrit

dhatric (धात्रिक) in Sanskrit, Maithili

nelli (නෙල්ලි) in Sinhala

nelli (நெல்லி - Root Word) or Nellikkāy (நெல்லிக்காய்) or Nellikani (நெல்லிக்கனி) in Tamil

aavnlaa (amla or ambla or awla) in Urdu

usiri kaay (ఉసిరి కాయ) in Telugu

ma kham pom (มะขามป้อม) in Thai

skyu ru ra (སྐྱུ་རུ་ར་) in Tibetan

amla (آملہ) in Urdu

me rừng, me mận, chùm ruột núi, or là mắc kham in Vietnamese

Size of tree
The page says "The tree is small to medium in size, reaching 1–8 m (3 ft 3 in–26 ft 3 in) in height" and there is an annotation to the effect that a citation is needed. I'd say the requirement is stronger than that since https://florafaunaweb.nparks.gov.sg/Special-Pages/plant-detail.aspx?id=3699 says "It is a large tree with thick arching branches, 18-32 m tall". Now that's a government site describing a native tree so is probably reasonably trustworthy, so there seems to be some dispute about how big the tree grows. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.97.62.77 (talk) 22:14, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Morphology
The branchlets are not glabrous or finely pubescent They are not A (n)or B, so what are they? Jidanni (talk) 12:56, 30 July 2020 (UTC)