A brilliant doctor in earlier times had devised a novel way to extract pus from festers and abscesses using chickpea.
en.wikipedia.org The most important crop hosts are tomato, cotton, pigeon pea, chickpea, sorghum and cowpea.
en.wikipedia.org Other staples for the majority of the population included pulses, beans, lentils and later chickpeas and fava beans.
en.wikipedia.org Other crops such as sugar cane, corn, beans, green chili peppers, cascabel chili peppers, tomatoes, watermelon, squash, chickpeas, sorghum, barley and pitahaya.
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