Common Wheat with Bran - Triticum aestivum

Common Whole Wheat with Bran - Triticum aestivum - Goduma

Botanical Name - Triticum aestivum L.(Common Wheat)

Sanskrit - arupa, bahudugdha, godhuma, godhuma-pishta, godhumah, kshiri, mlenchhabhojana, nistusha, rasala, saman, sumana, yava, yavana

Tamil Name - Yavainell(common wheat), godumai, godumbaiyarisi, kodumai, kotumpai, kothumai, kotumai, alari, ankunam, arkkam, cepam, iracalam, kankainirupam, katiratakali, kollaimutirai, kotamayava, kotimam, makacali, mikupalam, talamatitam, tamilam, taniyarajan, turankappiriyam, turankikam, mileccacakam, mileccacam, mileccai, mileccaram, nantamuki, yavai, tuymusti, vatattata

Hindi Name - gehub, gehum, giun, kunak, gehun, gieun, genhu, gaun, gehu, kanak

Kannada Name - godhi

Malayalam Name - gendum, gotampu, kotampu, kotanpam

Marathi Name - gahum, gahung

Family Name - POACEAE

Medicinal Uses :

1. Common wheat, best known and most widely cultivated of the wheats, is cultivated for the grain, used whole or ground. Fine ground, it is the source of flour for the world's breadmaking. Main use is for flour and bread-stuffs known by various names throughout the world.
   
   
2. Grain also is the source of alcoholic beverages, beer, industrial alcohol made into synthetic rubber and explosives.
   
   
3. Bran from flour milling also an important livestock feed; germ is valuable addition to feed concentrate.
   
   
4. Grain fed to livestock whole or coarsely ground. Starch is used for pastes and sizing textiles. Wheat grown for grain crop is also used for pasture before the stems elongate and as a temporary pasturage; it is nutritious and palatable.
   
   
5. The seeds are used in folk remedies for cancers, corns, tumors, warts, and whitlow.
   
   
6. Reported to be antivinous, bilious, demulcent, discutient, diuretic, emollient, excipient, intoxicant, laxative, useful as a poultice, restorative, sedative, common wheat is a folk remedy for burns, cancer, diarrhea, dysentery, ecchymosis, epistaxis, fertility, fever, flux, gravel, hematuria, hemoptysis, hemorrhage, incontinence, leprosy, leucorrhea, menorrhagia, neurasthenia, nightsweat, perspiration, scald, tumor, warts, whitlow, and wounds.