A tropical shrub or small tree native to Africa and the Middle East, whose bark has been traditionally used medicinally and for tanning leather.
From Arabic 'argal' or related Semitic languages, referring to this plant used in traditional medicine and leather processing for centuries throughout North Africa and the Middle East.
The argel tree represents traditional pharmaceutical knowledge that predates modern medicine by centuries—African and Arabic healers knew this plant's bark could reduce fevers and heal wounds, and modern chemical testing is only now beginning to understand why they were right.
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