How to Use Buckwheat and its extracts?

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Other Species and Buckwheat Family.

Buckwheat Extract INCI Name Polygonum Fagopyrum Extract CAS 89958-09-8 EINECS ELINCS No 289-631-2 photo picture image The FALSE BUCKWHEAT or Arrow-leaved Tear Thumb, is Polygonum sagittarum (Linn.), a North American plant that has become naturalized in County Kerry, Ireland.

It is an annual, with a rough stem, 6 inches to 2 feet high, bearing turned-back prickles. The leaves are oblong-ovate to arrow-shaped and the flowers white, in bloom from July to October.

It has been used with success in nephritic colic, relieving the pains caused by gravel.

The CLIMBING BUCKWHEAT or Black Bindweed, also called Bearbind and Cornbind, is Polygonum Convolvulus (Linn.), a troublesome climbing cornfield weed, which occurs indifferently in all soils.

Its stems are 1 to 3 feet long, angular, twining or trailing, bearing leaves 1 to 3 inches long, from heart-shaped to arrowshaped. The flowers are very small, in loose axillary spikes, about four together, greenishwhite, often tinged with red, and are insectpollinated, containing nectar secreted in glands near the base of the stamens. The fruits are three-angled, bearing a resemblance to those of Buckwheat.

It is largely distributed by the seeds being sown with those of the crop among which it has grown. Spraying as for Charlock (with solutions of copper-, iron- or ammonium sulphate) will largely destroy this weed in cereals. It may be injurious to animals, owing to mechanical injury from the seeds when fed with corn, horses are said to have been killed in this way.
Buckwheat Extract INCI Name Polygonum Fagopyrum Extract CAS 89958-09-8 EINECS ELINCS No 289-631-2 photo picture image

Varieties:

buckwheat grits = buckwheat cereal = cream of buckwheat Notes: These are finely ground buckwheat groats that cook very quickly. They're commonly used as a breakfast cereal. Substitutes: barley grits OR hominy grits

buckwheat groats = unroasted buckwheat groats = raw buckwheat groats = whole white buckwheat groats. Notes: These are buckwheat kernels that are stripped of their inedible outer coating and then crushed into smaller pieces. Unprocessed white groats are slightly bitter, so before you cook them it's a good idea to toast them in oil for several minutes until they're rust-colored. This removes the bitterness and brings out a pleasant, nutty flavor. If you don't want to do this yourself, you can buy already roasted groats, called kasha. Substitutes: kasha (similar texture, nuttier flavor) OR millet OR amaranth OR quinoa

kasha = kasza = roasted buckwheat groats = toasted buckwheat groats Pronunciation: KAH-shuh Notes: This is the Russian name for buckwheat groats that have been toasted in oil to remove buckwheat's natural bitterness and to bring out a sweeter, nuttier flavor. They come whole or crushed into a coarse, medium, or fine grain. Substitutes: buckwheat groats (Untoasted groasts have a milder, more bitter flavor compared to kasha. You can convert them into kasha yourself by cooking them in oil until they're rust colored.) OR rice

unhulled buckwheat groats Notes: These are used for making sprouts.
Buckwheat Extract INCI Name Polygonum Fagopyrum Extract CAS 89958-09-8 EINECS ELINCS No 289-631-2 photo picture image

Cultivation:

It is sown in May or June and ripens rapidly, thriving in the poorest soil. The flowers appear about July and the seeds ripen in October, but so tender are the plants that a single night's frost will destroy a whole crop. As a grian, Buckwheat is chiefly cultivated in England to supply food for pheasants and to feed poultry, which devour the seeds with avidity and thrive on it - hence one of its local names: Fat Hen. Mixed with bran chaff or grain, its seeds are sometimes given to horses, either whole or broken. When used as food for cattle, the hard angular rind must first be removed. The meal is considered specially good for fattening pigs: 8 bushels of Buckwheat have been said to go as far as 12 bushels of barleymeal and a bushel of the seeds to go further than 2 bushels of oats, though all farmers do not quite agree as to the superior food value of Buckwheat. If it is given to pigs at first in too large quantities, they will show symptoms of intoxication. As compared with the principal cereal grains, it is poor in nitrogenous substances and fat, its nutritious properties are greatly inferior to wheat, though as a food it ranks much higher than rice; but the rapidity and the ease with which it can be grown renders it a fit crop for very poor, badly-tilled land which will produce scarcely anything else, its culture, compared with that of other grain, being attended with little expense.

When grown by the preservers of game as a food for pheasants, it is often left standing, as it affords both food and shelter to the birds during the winter. With some farmers it is the practice to sow Buckwheat for the purpose only of ploughing it into the ground as a manure for the land. The best time for ploughing it in is when it is in full blossom, allowing the land to rest till it decomposes.

Whilst green, it serves as food for sheep and oxen, and mixed with other provender it may also with advantage be given to horses. If sown in April, two green crops may be procured during the season.

The best mode of harvesting this grain is said to be by pulling it out of the ground like flax, stripping off the seeds with the hand and collecting these into aprons or cloths tied round the waist.
Buckwheat Extract INCI Name Polygonum Fagopyrum Extract CAS 89958-09-8 EINECS ELINCS No 289-631-2 photo picture image

POLYGONACEAE - BUCKWHEAT FAMILY:

Fagopyrum sagittatum Gilib. BUCKWHEAT

Polygonella articulata (L.) Meisn. COAST JOINTWEED
Polygonum achoreum Blake. BLUE KNOT- WEED
Polygonum amphibium L. var. stipulaceum (Coleman) Fernald. HARTWRIGHT'S SMARTWEED
Polygonum arifolium L. HALBERED-LEAVED TEAR-THUMB
Polygonum aviculare L. COMMON KNOTWEED
Polygonum aviculare L. var. angustissimum Meisn. NARROW- LEAVED KNOTWEED
Polygonum aviculare L. var. vegetum Ledeb. STOUT KNOTWEED
Polygonum cilinode Michx. FRINGED BLACK BINDWEED
Polygonum Convolvulus L. BLACK BINDWEED
Polygonum Hydropiper L. COMMON SMARTWEED
Polygonum lapathifolium L. DOCK-LEAVED SMARTWEED
Polygonum lapathifolium L. var. salicifolium Sibth. WOOLLY DOCK-LEAVED SMARTWEED
Polygonum pensylvanicum L. var. Iaevigatum Fernald. SMOOTH PENNSYLVANIA SMARTWEED
Polygonum Persicaria L. LADY'S THUMB
Polygonum punctatum Ell. DOTTED SMARTWEED
Polygonum sagittatum L. ARROW-LEAVED TEAR-THUMB
Polygonum scabrum Moench. GLANDULAR LADY'S THUMB
Polygonum scandens L. CLIMBING FALSE BUCKWHEAT
Polygonum tenue Michx. SLENDER KNOTWEED
Rehum Rhaponticum L. GARDEN RHUBARB
Rumex acetosella L. FIELD OR SHEEP SORREL
Rumex altissimus Wood. TALL DOCK
Rumex crispus L. CURLED DOCK
Rumex domesticus Hartm. DOMESTIC DOCK
Rumex maritimus L. var. fueginus (Phil.) Dusen. GOLDEN DOCK
Rumex mexicanus Meissn. PALE OR WILLOW-LEAVED DOCK
Rumex orbiculatus A. Gray. GREAT WATER DOCK