Abstract:
An impressive abound medicinal plants have been utilized for the treatment of diseases from the time
immemorial. The medicinal plants used in traditional medicine still plays an important role in emerging
and developing countries since; they are inexpensive, effective and have natural origin. Acacia arabica
commonly known as babul belongs to the family Fabaceae is widely distributed throughout the tropical
and subtropical plains all over India, Sri Lanka, and Sudan, this plant is native to Egypt. Almost all its
parts such as root, bark, leaves, flower, gum, pods etc are used in medication. The qualitative
phytochemical study of different part of plant extract like leaves and fruits contain tannin; flowers
contain stearic acid, kaempferol-3- glucoside, isoquercetin, leucocyanidin; pods contain tannin gum
contain Arabic acid combined with calcium, magnesium and potassium. Moreover, polyphenolic
compounds have also been reported in pods and bark. In traditional medicine, it is used for bleeding
diseases, prolapse, leucorrhoea etc and experimental studies of A. arabica showed antihypertensive,
antispasmodic, antibacterial, antifungal, antioxidant activity etc. The present review is an attempt to
explore and comprehensively highlight the ethnomedicine uses, phytochemical properties and
pharmacological uses of Acacia arabica reported till date.
