How to Use Buckwheat and its extracts?
Contents:
- Basic Botanical Info.
- Botanical Description.
- Phytochemicals and Constituents.
- Beneficial Nutrients and Phytochemicals.
- Medicinal Action and Uses:Astringent, acrid.
- History of Buckwheat.
- Buckwheat classification.
- Buckweet Commodities.
- Other Species and Buckwheat Family.
- Research Update:Polygonum fagopyrum.
Basic Botanical Info.
Buckwheat(Fagopyrum esculentum)
Botanical: Polygonum fagopyrum
Family: Polygonaceae
Genus: Fagopyrum
Common names:almindelig boghvede,ble noir,bokkveite,bokvete,bovete,Buchweizen,buck wheat,buckwheat,echter Buchweizen,fagopiro
Species:
Fagopyrum esculentum
Fagopyrum tataricum
Synonym(s): common buckwheat, fagopyrum, Polygonum fagopyrum; brank; beechwhea,Brank. Beechwheat. Le Ble noir. Sarrasin. Buchweizen. Heidekorm. French. Wheat. Saracen Corn.
Synonyms Fagopyrum sagittatum Gilib., Polygonum fagopyrum L.
Definition:
Noun 1. Fagopyrum - buckwheat; in some classifications included in the genus Polygonum
genus Fagopyrum:dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
buckwheat family, family Polygonaceae, Polygonaceae - a family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats
Polygonum fagopyrum
n : or member of genus Fagopyrum; annual Asian plant with clusters of small pinkish white flowers and small edible triangular seeds which are used whole or ground into flour [syn: buckwheat, Polygonum fagopyrum, Fagopyrum esculentum]
Part Used:The fruit.
Habitat:A native of Northern or Central Asia. Largely cultivated in West China.
a. An annual Asian plant (Fagopyrum esculentum) having clusters of small whitish or pinkish flowers and small, seedlike, triangular fruits. b. The edible fruits of this plant, used either whole or ground into flour.
Any of several similar or related plants.
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1.How to Use Buckwheat and its extracts?
last edit date:12th,Feb.2010.
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Serie No:P035 Specifications:10:1 TLC. INCI Name:POLYGONUM FAGOPYRUM EXTRACT EINECS/ELINCS No.:289-631-2 CAS:89958-09-8 Chem/IUPAC Name:Polygonum Fagopyrum Extract is an extract of the leaves and shoots of the buckwheat, Polygonum fagopyrum, Polygonaceae |
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