Fagopyrum esculentum Moench. |
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Botanical Name |
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Fagopyrum esculentum Moench. |
English
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Common Buckwheat |
Synonym(s) |
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Polygonum fagopyrum L., Fagopyrum sagittatum Gilib., Fagopyrum fagopyrum (L.) Karst. |
Family |
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Polygonaceae |
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General Info
| Description |
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An annual herb, 3-5 ft. high, with alternate, hastate, acute leaves,
1-3 in. long; flowers in axillary or terminal cymes, pinkish white, fragrant, dimorphic and highly self-sterile; fruit a 3-cornered achene, 0.2-0.4 in. long with keeled edges, varying in colour from silvery grey to brown or black. |
| Herb Effects |
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Acrid, astringent and vasodilator (leaves and shoots) |
Chemistry
| Active Ingredients |
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Rutin, arginine, lysine, cystine, histidine, glycine, alanine, valine, leucine, glutamic acid, phenylalanine, praline and tryptophane. |
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Pharmacology
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For hemorrhoids, circulatory system problems such as vericose ulcers, veins, in colic, choleic, diarrhoea and abdominal obstructions (plant); for bruises in the patients of rheumatoid arthritis (leaves); for restoring the flow of milk in nursing mothers (poultice from the seeds) |
| Contraindication |
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This plant has caused photosensitivity in some people. |
| Reference |
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 Stary, Medicinal Herbs and Plants.
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