Himmas - chickpeas

Essence.
Chickpeas come in many varieties: white, red, black and the lentil-like vetch. Its species include garden and wild. Wild chickpeas are spicier, more bitter and more warming. It has all the effects of garden chickpeas in strength, but the nutritional value of garden chickpeas is better than that of wild ones.

Nature.
White - hot, dry to the first degree. Black chickpeas are stronger.

Actions and properties.
Both open and soften; There is an opening power in chickpeas. It is more nourishing than fava beans and more dense; There is no similar plant that is more nutritious for the lungs than chickpeas. Fresh chickpeas produce more surplus than dry chickpeas.

Cosmetics.
Chickpeas in the form of an ointment or taken internally reduce bruises and improve complexion.

Tumors and acne.
Chickpeas help against hot, hard tumors, as well as those in the glands.

Wounds and ulcers.
Chickpea oil is good for lichen, and chickpea flour is good for malignant and cancerous ulcers and scabies. Tools with joints.

Chickpeas help with back pain.

Organs of the head.
Chickpeas are useful for wet pimples on the head, and its infusion is useful for toothache and for hot and hard swellings of the gums, as well as for tumors that form under the ears.

Respiratory and chest organs.
Chickpeas clear the voice and nourish the lungs better than anything else. Therefore, a stew is prepared from it, that is, from chickpea flour.

Nutritional organs.
Chickpea decoction is useful for dropsy and jaundice. It opens blockages in the liver and spleen, especially lenticular and black. Chickpeas should be eaten not at the beginning or at the end of the meal, but in the middle.

Eruption organs.
A decoction of black chickpeas with almond oil, wild radish and celery oil crushes stones in the bladder and kidneys; all varieties of chickpeas expel the fruit. Chickpeas are harmful for bladder ulcers. It greatly enhances lust and that is why male domestic animals and camels are fed chickpeas. Chickpea infusion, drunk on an empty stomach, causes a strong erection. All types of chickpeas, especially black and lentil-shaped ones, soften the stomach and open blockages in the kidneys. Some say that if you soak chickpeas in vinegar, eat them on an empty stomach and then wait half a day, it kills the worms.

Hippocrates said that chickpeas have two substances that leave them when cooked. One of them is salty, softening in nature, and the other is sweet, diuretic. The sweet substance, in addition, swells and thereby arouses lust.