In Roman mythology, Terminus was the god of boundaries. The stones used to mark borders were sacred to him.
On February 23, a festival called Terminalia was celebrated annually by the Romans in his honor. The stone boundary-markers were drenched in sacrificial blood and placed on flowers to renew its protective powers. The stone was later thought of as a god.
Jupiter was worshipped as Jupiter Terminus or Jupiter Terminalus. He fit into the same role as the independent god Terminus.
Terminalia chebula is reported to improve the secretory status of Brunner's glands involved in the protection against duodenal ulcer (Nadar and Pillai 1989).
A methanol extract of Terminalia chebula is reported to have had a high potential for inhibiting the growth of leukemia cells, attributed to arjunglucoside I and arjungenin (Creencia et al 1996).
Terminalia chebula is reported to significantly reduce serum cholesterol, aortic sudanophilia and the cholesterol contents of the liver and aorta in cholesterol-fed rabbits (Thakur et al 1988).
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