Triphalā, a word that has a Sanskrit origin, is a herbal meld of three different fruits, namely amlaki or amla, haritaki or harada and bibhitaki or bihara. More popularly known as Indian gooseberry, chebulic myrobalan and beleric myrobalan, it is the concoction of these three fruits put together which forms a rather potent motley of organic herbs, prescribed and recommended in the ancient Indian healing exposition of ayurveda for a number of ailments.