Abstract

REVIEW ON: ACACIA ARABICA (BABOOL) AND IT'S MORPHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION

Aniket Gholap*, Ankita Chavan, Gitanjali Gholap, Vaishnavi Borkar, Gayatri Sargar and Rushikesh Chavan

Abstract

The use of herbal medicine has increased dramatically during the past few decades. Traditional medical systems like Unani, Ayurveda, and Siddha have relied on herbal remedies as their primary means of diagnosing, treating, and curing a wide range of illnesses and physiological abnormalities. Especially in undeveloped and underdeveloped nations, a sizable portion of the global population still relies heavily on the conventional system of medicine Drugs to treat a variety of ailments are routinely developed using the useful and affordable phytochemicals found in medicinal plants. Because herbal medications are inexpensive, readily available, and of natural origin with larger safety margins and fewer or no adverse effects, they are becoming more and more widely used in medicine. Babool (Acacia Arabica) is a plant that has therapeutic benefits for a number of human bodily systems according to the Unani school of medicine. The plant's bark, root, gum, leaves, pod, and seeds are only a few of the components that have therapeutic uses. The current study aims to highlight the many ethnobotanical and Unani traditional applications of Acacia arabica, also known as Babool, as well as its phytochemical and pharmacological properties.

Keywords: Acacia nilotica, phytomedicine, multipurpose plant, different parts, medicinal uses, pharmacological properties.