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Acacia leucophloea
Also called Distiller's Acacia, White Bark Acacia
Vachellia leucophloea, also called White Bark Acacia or Distiller's Acacia, is a moderate-sized thorny tree native to South and Southeast Asia. It is a drought-tolerant tree suited to hot, dry climates and is grown mainly outdoors rather than as a houseplant.
Vachellia leucophloea (Hindi: रेवंजा Punjabi: ਰੇਰੂ), also vernacularly as the White Bark Acacia or reonja, is a moderate-sized tree native to South and Southeast Asia.
Vachellia leucophloea grows natively in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
The bark extracts of Vachellia leucophloea are used in Pakistani traditional medicine as an astringent, a bitter, a thermogenic, a styptic, a preventive of infections, an anthelmintic, a vulnerary, 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. An ethanolic extract ointment has shown marked wound healing activity in trials.
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