Vicia faba L.Family: Fabaceae
Synonyms: Faba bona Medik. , Faba equina Medik. , Faba faba (L.) House , Faba major Desf. , Faba minor Roxb. , Faba sativa Bernh. , Faba vulgaris Moench , Orobus faba Brot. , Vicia esculenta Salisb. , Vicia faba subsp. faba , Vicia vulgaris Gray
Common name: Broad Bean
- Arabic: ful
- Chinese: 佛豆, 南豆, 竖豆, 胡豆,蚕豆
- Dutch: Tuinboon,
- Finnish: haerkaepapu, Härkäpapu, peltopapu
- French: Fève des marais, Féverolle, Vesce cultivée, Poisette, Vesce Fève
- German: Ackerbohne, Saubohne,
- Hindi: Bakla बाकला
- Italian: Fava
- Japanese: gora-mame, otafuku-mame, ソラマメ
- Persian: bagli, bakila
- Polish: bob
- Portuguese: Fava
- Russian: konskij bob, конский боб
- Spanish: Haba
- Swedish: bondböna
- Tagalog: Habas
- Turkish: Bakla,
- Welsh: ysgewyll Brysel
Description: Erect tannual, 60-120 cm tall. Leaflets 2-6, 4.0-10.0 cm long, 1.0-4.0 cm broad, oval to elliptic, obtuse, mucronate, glabrous; stipules 10-17 mm long. Flowers 1-6, axillary. Calyx 12-15 mm long, cup oblique, lower teeth longer, c. 5 mm long. Corolla white with dark violet wings. Fruit 8-20 cm long, c. 1.0-2.0 cm broad, pubescent. Seeds 2.0-3.0 cm, ovoid-oblong.
Used in Sidha. Broad beans are not poisonous to humans in the conventional sense, but they cause favism, a hemolytic anemia, in susceptible individuals. These individuals have a genetically transmitted, male sex-linked deficiency to the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase. Certain groups such as Oriental Jews, Mediterranean Europeans, Arabs, Asians, and blacks may have the deficiency. The disease can cause death in severe cases. Flour from seeds used as emol- lient and resolvent. Ceremonial medicine. [CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants]
As a folk medicine, faba bean has been used as a diuretic, lithontripic, expectorant, or tonic.[Edible Medicinal and Non-Medicinal Plants Vol-2]
Digestive diseases, skin diseases [Ethnomedicinal Plants Revitalization of Traditional Knowledge of Herbs]
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