Botanical Name : Acacia nilotica / Acacia. arabica
Sanskrit name : Babbula                              
English Name :  Indian Gum Arabic Tree, Black Babool
Family: Fabaceae            
                            
Description of  Acacia nilotica / Acacia. arabica :

It grows throughout the drier parts of India.. It is a moderate-sized, almost evergreen tree with a short trunk, and a spreading crown. The bark is dark brown to almost black, longitudinally fissured or deeply cracked. Leaves are 2-pinnate and the main rachis has glands. Stipular spines are variable. Leaflets are subsessile and glabrous. Flowers golden-yellow, fragrant, crowded in long-stalked globose heads, forming auxiliary clusters of 2-5 heads. Pods are stalked, flat, compressed 7.5-15.0 cm in length and contracted between the circular seeds. Three subspecies are recognized in India.

Principal Constituents:

It contains gallic acid, m-digallic acid,(+)-catechin, chlorogenic acid, gallolyated flavan-3,4-diol and robidandiol (7,3',4'5',-tetrahydroxyflavan-3,4-diol).

Pharmacology:

It has spasmogenic, vasoconstrictor, anti-hypertensive, antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory and anti-platelet aggregatory activity.

Toxicology:

nilotica, at 2% and 8% levels, has a low toxicity potential. In a survey of potentially allergenic plants in Pondicherry, it was reported likely to cause pollen allergy.

Medicinal Uses:
It is astringent, demulcent, aphrodisiac, tonic and antipyretic. It is used in conditions of bleeding gums, mouth ulcers and genitourinary disorders.

Herbal Extract packing:

•  25 Kg. HDPE Drum.