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General Uses of Various parts of the Tree

1)     The gum that exudes spontaneously from the trunk is sometimes collected like gum Arabic

2)     use it as the soft flat wood upon which the firestick is twirled to make fire. Wood is used for canoes,mortars and pestles.The wood is used for carving.

3)     The thorny branches useful for a natural barbed fence

4)     Fragrant flowers bloom in summer and fall, but the branches are bare in the winter. Because of spines, it may be used as a barrier plant

5)     Babul correlate with a several fold increase in soil N and organic matter, coupled with improved soil water-holding capacity.

Medical values of Babul

1)     Used for colds, diarrhea, hemorrhage, and ophthalmia in West Africa.

2)     On the Ivory Coast it is used for leprosy.

3)     The bark decoction curtails nausea.

4)     A liniment, made by steeping the bark, is used for bathing and massage in pneumonia.

5)     The bark infusion is used for difficult delivery, and is used as a febrifuge for cough (Irvine, 1961).

6)     Pods worn as charm by African women and children to avert smallpox.

7)     Gum Arabic's main effect is to form a protective, soothing coating over inflammations in the respiratory, alimentary, and urinary tracts. It is helpful for coughs, sore throat, and catarrh, eyewash, diarrhea, and dysentery. Sweetened, it is sometimes used for typhoid fever.

8)     The root powder is used in leucorrhoea.

9)     The juice of tender leaves is used as a lotion in conjunctivitis , while a leaf paste in cold water is used as an anti-dysenteric agent.

10)The bark is used widely as a demulcent, in conjunctivitis , and the gum as an antidiarrhoeal medicine.

11)The bark decoction is also used as a gargle and mouthwash in throat and laryngeal inflammation and aphthous stomatitis , as also to clear ulcers and wounds

12)Alcoholic extract of bark has an antiprotozoal action against E histolytica. CNS depressant activity was present as seen by amphetamine hyperactivity test. Bark tannins killed bacterial virus (E.coli R host cell) at 1:25,000 dilution within five minutes.

13)cultivated trees, seven years old or more, and must be allowed to mature for a year before being used medicinally

14)Babul Bark contains from 24-42% of tannin (gallic acid). Acacia Bark's powerful astringency causes this herb to be extensively employed in the tanning industry.