Birth Star: AVITTOM
English Name: Indian Gum tree
Malayalam Name: വഹ്നി
Botanical Name: Prosopis cineraria (L.) Druce
Family: Fabaceae
Flowering & Fruiting: October-February
Description: This evergreen tree is regarded as one of the highly prized herbs in traditional medicine. Asthma, dysentery, leucoderma, leprosy, dyspepsia, earache, and other conditions were treated with plants in ancient literature for the Arabian Gulf and Indian Desert. Rheumatism, cough, common cold, anthelmintic disease, dysentery, bronchitis, asthma, leucoderma, piles, and muscle tremors can all be treated using Prosopis cineraria stem bark. An essential factor in the socioeconomic advancement of farmers is the Prosopis cineraria. The Prosopis tree’s wood, which is used to make fuel, firewood, and charcoal, is its most economically significant component.
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