Black babool
Scientific name of Black Babool tree: Acacia nilotica
Family: Mimosaceae
Name of black babool in different languages:
English: Prickly acacia, Rusty Acacia, Thorn tree, Babool, Babul.
Sanskrit: Vavari, Barburah, Arimedham, Babboola
Hindi: Babur, Babul, Kikar
Malayalam: Karivelam കരിവേലം, Karuvelamകരുവേലം
Tamil: Karuvael, Karuvelam
Plant description:
A moderate sized tree upto 10 m in height with dark brown or longitudinally, fissured rough bark and reddish brown heart wood, branchlets slender, pubescent when young; leaves bipinnately compound, main rachis downy often, with glands, stipular spines highly variable, often whitish, straight and sharp, pinnate 4-9 pairs, leaflets sub sessile, 10-25 pairs, nearly glabrous, flowers golden yellow in globose heads, peduncles axillary in fasicles of 2-6; fruits stalked, compressed, moniliform pods with constrictions between the seeds; seeds 8-12 per pod.
Propagation: Seeds
Leaf Arrangement
| Shape-Bipinnate | Margin-Entire | Venation-Pinnate |
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Useful plant parts:
Leaf, root, stem, and gum (Gum arabic).
Medicinal uses:
To treat hemorrhages, ulcers, chronic dysentery, skin diseases, burning sensation, bronchitis, leprosy, oral ulcers, odontopathy, pneumonia, internal fevers and general debility.
Chemical content:
Tannin.
Medicinal Properties:
Aphrodisiac, anthelmintic, diuretic, antidermatic, antirheumatic, expectorant
How to prepare medicines:
The root of the plant is used to treat tuberculosis; wood is used to treat smallpox, crushed leaves are poultice and used to treat ulcers.
Gum arabic tree is the one of the ingredients in the Ayurveda medicines like-
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