Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Cicer arietinum?
If you know websites containing any information about Cicer arietinum please link to them.
Answer
Here is some basic information about Cicer arietinum and a list of ethnobotanical uses which includes medicinal uses and other uses of Cicer arietinum.
Cicer arietinum basic info
Scientific Name: Cicer arietinum L..
Family: Leguminosae.
Genus: Cicer.
Common names in English: chickpea, garbanzo, gram.
For common names of Cicer arietinum in different languages – See link
Description: The chickpea or chick pea (Cicer arietinum) is one of the earliest cultivated legumes: 7,500-year-old remains have been found in the Middle East. Chickpeas are a nutrient-dense food, providing rich content of protein, dietary fibre, folate, and certain dietary minerals such as iron and phosphorus. – for more info about Cicer arietinum See link
Ethnobotanical and folk medicinal uses of Cicer arietinum
- Aphrodisiac
- Astringent
- Bile
- Bilious
- Bite(Snake)
- Bronchitis
- Catarrh
- Cholera
- Coffee
- Constipation
- Cutamenia
- Cyanogenetic
- Diarrhea
- Diuretic
- Dysentery
- Dysmenorrhea
- Dyspepsia
- Fever
- Flatulence
- Lactagogue
- Nausea
- Skin
- Sunstroke
- Tonic
- Tumor(Penis)
- Tumor(Testicle)
- Wart
*The information in this list is based on the ethnobotanical data in Dr. Duke’s Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases.
Dr. Duke does not recommend using this information for self diagnosis or self medication. – See link
Cicer arietinum in other websites
Cicer arietinum common names, economics importance, distributional range and more in the USDA GRIN website – See link.
Search PubMed (US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health) for academic researches with the search term Cicer arietinum – See link.
See if there is something in Youtube on the term Cicer arietinum – See link.