The advantage of women eating chickpeas for a long time is to improve blood sugar. Chickpea has the functions of improving blood sugar, protecting blood vessels and delaying aging. Chickpea is often used to assist in the treatment of some diseases in clinic, such as alleviating menopausal symptoms in women.

At the same time, it can reduce blood fat and promote bone formation to reduce bone loss, as well as breast enhancement and improve skin elasticity.

Morphological characteristics of chickpea

Annual grass or perennial climbing herb. Height 1-2 m, stem erect, much branched, covered with white glandular hairs. Stipules are leaflike, or have 3-5 irregular serrations or sparse serrations at the lower edge; Leaves with 7- 17 leaflets, opposite or alternate, narrowly elliptic, 7- 17 mm long and 3- 10 mm wide, with densely serrated edges and white glandular hairs on both sides.

Flowers are solitary or twin in leaf axils, pedicels are 0.5-2.5 cm long, corollas are white or light blue, purplish red, 8- 10 mm long and have glandular hairs; Calyx shallowly campanulate, 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate, ca. 6-9 mm long, covered with white glandular hairs. Pods are ovoid, swollen, drooping, about 2 cm long and about 1 cm wide, green when young, pale yellow when mature, covered with white pubescence and glandular hairs, with 1-4 seeds.

Seeds are white pubescent, black or brown, wrinkled, and apiculate at one end. The flowering period is from June to July, and the fruiting period is from August to September.