Acacia sinuata |
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| Description | ||||||
| A prickly, scandent shrub, occurring in tropical jungles throughout India, with bipinnate leaves, yellow, globose flowers in axillary heads and brown, wrinkled and notched pods when dry containing 6-10 seeds. | ||||||
| Useful part | ||||||
| Pods, seeds, bark, leaves | ||||||
| Medicinal Uses | ||||||
| skin diseases, leucoderma, leprosy, prurigo, eczema, abscesses, burning sensation, constipation, during delivery, purgative | ||||||
| Major chemical constituents | ||||||
α-spinasterone, α-spinasterol, lupeol, acacic acid lactone, calycotomine, nicotine, rutin, acacinin A to E, acacigenin-B, β-sitosterol, concinnin, prosapogenin |
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