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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 13 Advances in chickpea research [Abstract] Objective To review the chickpea chemical composition, pharmacological effects, the research progress of civilian applications. Methods and summarized the literature at home and abroad in recent years. Results chickpea hypoglycemic, lipid-lowering effect is obvious. Conclusion With the Eagle beans of the mouth further, its medicinal value will be further development and utilization, and its prospects will be even brighter. [Keywords:] chickpea, chemical composition, pharmacological action, civil applications Chickpea is a leguminous Cicerarietinum L, autumn fruit mature, excised shoots, dried, lay the seeds, remove impurities and get dry seeds. Chickpea conventional medicine for the Uygur, Uighur named slaves almost unique, Snow Hu mentioned, because the seed of the form Yingtou, beheaded or mountain-like protrusions named, not the name of a sheep’s head beans, chicken head beans, chicken peas, beans, and other brain beans and peaches. chickpeas rich northern slope of Tianshan in Xinjiang 1 300 m above sea level the Mori County, growth has been 2,500 years of history. According to lt;lt;Republic of China Ministry of Health, Drug Standards Uighur Volumegt;gt; records, chickpeas are rich in the human body needs 18 amino acids and protein, dietary fiber, calcium, potassium, zinc and other trace elements and vitamins and other nutrients, known as “the flower of nutrition, beans the king,” so, chickpeas and products has become a new type of cereal nutrition and health foods [ 1,2]. Generally believed that, chickpeas originated in West Asia, the Mediterranean coast (seven thousand years ago, started to grow). Chickpea is the world’s cultivated area of one of the larger food legume crops, leguminous crops currently ranked No. 2 [ 3], the distribution of various countries in the world, including Asia’s largest area of cultivation, followed by Africa, .1956, the U.S. medical experts, Klein Manc