Scientific noum: Vicia Faba L.
Family: Pea family- Leguminosae
Habitat: Native from Asia. Cultivated.
Amines: tyrosine, vicine, tiramine, dioxifenilalanine and convicine.
Active parts: Seeds and pollen, but sometimes the whole plant. Varieties equina and angustifolia , mainly used as animal food, but equally edible, are the main responsible for cases of favism by ingestion.
Uses : Human food and animal food, medicinal: diuretic and depurative.
Toxicity : In cases of favism, very high. Symptoms: Favism is an allergic response to the plant that produces dermatitis in people who are in contact with it. Another reactions produced by plant ingestion are: stomachache, vertigo, hepatic illness , anemia, heart failure, coma and death. It is a kind of disease which happens to be hereditary, affecting certain communities of Mediterranean people , specially those living in Sardinia island. Medical treatment: transfusions of blood and cortisone.	Vicia Faba L.