Moderately moistening and binding. Tonic, demulcent, emollient, bulk laxative. Acacia Gum, also called Gum Arabic, is the gummy exudate of a leguminous small tree or shrub that is native to the hot, arid deserts of the Middle East.
Acacia Gum is a bulk laxative, and is also a great healer and restorative of the large intestine or colon, which increases its vital functions and nutritive integrity, promotes peristalsis, and heals chronic ulcers and catarrhs in that organ, and in the entire GI tract. In herbal pharmacy, it is often added to syrups, pills and electuaries as a thickening, emulsifying or bonding agent.