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Phaseolus

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Phaseolus
a genus of bean plants in the family Fabaceae; contain a number of phytotoxins including phaseolus hemolytic agent, lunatin, a cyanogenetic glucoside, and a hemagglutinating lectin which causes vomiting, diarrhea. Includes garden kidney beans (P. vulgaris, e.g. French beans, scarlet runner climbing bean) and crop beans such as Lima and Java beans (P. lunatus).
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Phaseolus coccineus, as it is more correctly known, originated in Central America and wild relatives can still be found in parts of Mexico.
There's so many beans and they date back centuries; GARDENING by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Last century Könicke, in a paper on the home of the garden bean, pointed out that this crop plant was formerly generally accepted as having been cultivated in Europe by the ancient Greeks and Romans, under the name of Dolickos, Phaseolus, etc.
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A study entitled "A Dietary Supplement Containing Standardized Phaseolus vulgaris Extract Influences Body Composition of Overweight Men and Women" was published in the January 2007 issue of the International Journal of Medical Sciences.
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