Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants

Acacia Leucophaea willd

Family: Mimosaceae
Genus: Acacia
Botanical name: Acacia Leucophaea willd
PLANT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Sanskrit: Arimeda
English: White babool, Distiller’s acacia
Hindi: Safed babool
Malayalam: Velvelam, Velvelakam

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES
White babool attains a height of about 20 to 30 ft and a girth of 2 to 3 ft. New leaves appear in April, and yellowish white flowers appear from August to October. The pods ripe by April and the seeds germinate readily if moisture is available. The tree is very hardy and stands drought well. It is frost hardy except in young age.
The barks of White babool are used in Pakistan traditional medicine as an astringent, a bitter, a thermogenic, a styptic, a preventive of infections, an anthelmintic, a vulnery, a demulcent, an expectorant, an antipyretic, an antidote for snake bites and in the treatment of bronchitis, cough, vomiting, wounds, ulcers, diarrhea, dysentery, internal and external hemorrhages, dental caries, stomatitis, and intermittent fevers and skin diseases.