Origin:
Native to Sudan. Cultivated in dry parts of western India.

Action:
The tree yields the true Gum arabic of commerce. Mucilaginous, demulcent, emulsifying agent. Used as an ingredient in compounds for treatment of diarrhoea, catarrh. Bechic, antihaemorrhagic, antiinflammatory.

Stembark—antiinflammatory, spasmolytic.

Root— used for dysentery and urinary discharges.

Khare, C.P./ Indian Medicinal Plants. -- Nueva Dheli: Springer, 2007 . - p. 836.