triphala — triphala is good for digestion

• Latin: none
• Sanskrit: Triphala
• Hindi:Triphal
• English: Three Fruits formula

Parts Used:
These are all fruits. Each plant has a different therapeutic value and must be prepared in its own way for maximum benefits.

This "herb" is actually a mixture of three Ayurvedic fruits in equal proportion: Amalaki (Emblica officinale), Bibhitaki (Terminalia belerica) and Haritaki (Terminalia chebula).

Traditional Ayurvedic Uses:

• Triphala is very commonly used for digestion and regularity. It is often too strong for westerners, and should be used sparingly and with other herbs to balance its possible heating effects.

Highest Quality Triphala
At Maharishi Ayurveda Products, we are committed to only using the highest quality ingredients, and to upholding the authenticity of the ayurvedic tradition no matter what the cost. This is the only way the full range of results indicated in the Vedic texts can be realized.

Here is one example of this. The Haritaki fruit comes in seven different varieties. While all are beneficial, most of them help with only one of the many benefits that the texts mention for Haritaki. One variety is good for the eyes, for instance, and another variety is good for clearing the bowels.

However, most buyers of Triphala don't realize that there is one variety, called Vijaya, that gives all of the results. Vijaya is mentioned by all the great ayurvedic seers as best variety to use, which in itself is rare, as not many fruits and herbs are universally acclaimed by all the seers.

Vijaya is the only variety that is used in Maharishi Ayurveda's Products herbal formulals that use Triphala, because it is, quite simply, the best. But while it is the best, Vijaya is also the most rare. This scarcity makes it more expensive; in fact it is ten times the price of other varieties of Haritaki.

It's not often that people in the U.S. know about the dramatic differences in the quality of various varieties of Haritaki. So you may not realize that the Triphala that is available from various companies for a very low price can also be of a much lower quality. Low-cost Triphala does not contain the Vijaya variety of Haritaki, which is the only variety that brings the wide ranges of benefits mentioned in the ayurvedic texts. Therefore if you take low-quality products, you cannot expect to get the full range of effects as described in this article: Properties of Triphala and also in Triphala: More Than Just a Digestive Tonic.

Since our triphala is of higher quality than any other available and to differentiate Maharishi Ayurveda Triphala from others we have renamed ours Digest Tone. Because Digest Tone is gentle, you can take it for longer periods of time, and then it has a deeply purifying effect. It goes deeper into the physiology and releases the toxins at a much deeper level -- it cleanses toxins from the nutrient fluid, the blood, the muscle and the fat tissues if used for a long enough time.

Combinations are Best
The ayurvedic physicians of Maharishi Ayurveda do not recommend the use of single herbs for self-care due to several important reasons.

One of the specialties of ayurveda is the science of herb combining that has been perfected over thousands of years of clinical practice. From this ayurvedic perspective, the study of herbs from scientific research which is based on single ingredient formulas is not very practical. This is because an herb can give a number of different effects depending on the other herbs it is combined with as well as a number of other factors such as dosage, how the herb was processed, etc. If one focuses just on the results of a study based on one ingredient, while it may be interesting, it does not give the full insight into the complete range of effects available from that particular herb.