🌍African Traditional Medicine
Senegalia (Gum Arabic)
Senegalia senegal
About Senegalia (Gum Arabic)
Senegalia (Gum Arabic) (Senegalia senegal) is a herb used in the African Traditional Medicine tradition to help with Gut Health, IBS, Digestive Issues, and Cholesterol, among 1 other condition it addresses. The resin is the part traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Senegalia greggii is a species of Senegalia native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, from the extreme south of Utah (where, at 37°10' N it is the northernmost naturally occurring Senegalia species anywhere in the world) south through southern Nevada, southeast California, Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas to Baja California, Sinaloa and Nuevo León in Mexico.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Resin · internal