Acacia nilotica - Aaavartaki

Vachellia nilotica,Babul

Vachellia nilotica is a tree 5–20 m high with a dense spheric crown, stems and branches usually dark to black coloured, fissured bark, grey-pinkish slash, exuding a reddish low quality gum.

Uses

sexual problems, eye diseases, Heals wounds, Bleeding of the uterus, liver problems, jaundice, throat problems, stomach problems, hair problems, Skin problems.

Parts Used

Fruit, Niryaas, Leaves.

Chemical Composition

Polysaccharide Arabin (Mixture of calcium, magnesium and potassium salts of arabic acid).Arabic acid on hydrolysis gives D-galactose, L-arabinose, L-rhamnose and D-glucoronic acid.Also contain enzyme oxidase and peroxidase.

Common names

Language	Common name
Kannada	Babli
Hindi	Babool
Malayalam	Karivelam
Tamil	karuvelai
Telugu	Nalla tumma
Marathi	NA
Gujarathi	NA
Punjabi	NA
Kashmiri	NA
Sanskrit	Aaavartaki
English	Gum Arabic

Properties

Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.

Habit

tree

Identification

Leaf

Kind	Shape	Feature
alternate	stipulate	stipulate, stipules modified into ½ to 2" long straight, white thorns, petiolate, compound, bipinnate and paripinnate, pinnae 5-7 pairs, pinnules 10-20 pairs, sessile or subsessile, minute, ovate or oblong, entire, unicostate reticulate.

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Flower

Type	Size	Color and composition	Stamen	More information
bisexual	2.5 cm long	bright yellow	4 or 5 petals	Flowers tiny, clustered together in bright-yellow, round heads, Bracteate, ebracteolate, sessile or subsessile, complete, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, hypogynous, pentamerous, yellow, very small

Fruit

Type	Size	Mass	Appearance	Seeds	More information
lomentum		A lomentum, pods linear-oblong, glaucous-green, jointed, joints nearly orbicular, compressed, minutely hairy	12-20 seeds	{{{5}}}	{{{6}}}

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

• Vishatinduka Taila as root juice extract

Mode of Propagation

Seeds.

How to plant/cultivate

Some species of acacia - notably A. baileyana, B. dealbata and C. pravissima - are cultivated as ornamental garden plants. The 1889 publication 'Useful native plants of Australia' describes various uses for eating.

Commonly seen growing in areas

wild forest regions, dry arid regions.

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External Links

• Acacia nilotica-uses, benefits, sideeffects, nutrients

• Acacia nilotica on yumpu
• In vivo and in vitro effect of Acacia nilotica seed proteinase inhibitors on Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) larvae
• Acacia nilotica on feedipedia.org