Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
Info
Chapter:
3-644.55.__
Acacia nilotica
English: Babul tree; Indian Gum Arabic tree.
Sanskrit: Barbara, Vavari
Indian: Babul.
Region: India.
Habitat: deciduous forest.
Use: medicinal use in Ayurveda of bark, gum, leaves, resin, root, seed pods.
Botany
Tree; 5 to 20 m high; dense spheric crown.
Stems: branches usually dark to black coloured; fissured bark; grey-pinkish slash; exuding a reddish low quality gum; with thin, straight, light, grey spines in axillary pairs, usually in 3 to 12 pairs, 5 to 8 cm long in young trees, mature trees commonly without thorns.
Body
General: cancer, tumors.
Ear: cancer.
Eye: cancer.
Male: testicles cancer.
Abdomen: induration of liver and spleen, condylomas, and excess flesh.
Action: strongly astringent; antiscorbutic.
Content: tannin.
Ayruveda: pacifies vitiated kapha, pitta.
, pyorrhea, stomatitis, wounds, hemorrhage, ulcers, dysentery, diarrhea, skin diseases, burning sensation.
Lungs: cough.
Mouth: dental caries.