Saudi Aramco World : The Hazelnuts of Trabzon - Corylus avellana-Hazelnuts - فُندق

Scientists have long recognized this nut’s curative power. A contemporary of Xenophon, Greek physician Ctesias of Cnidos, mentioned hazelnuts in the Hippocratic Corpus, a collection of early medical texts. In the first century ce, Dioscorides prescribed its oil and milk mixed as a cough syrup in his pharmacopoeia De Materia Medica. The legendary pre-Islamic sage Luqman al-Hakim(حكيم لقمان) recommended taking hazelnuts with marzipan (sweetened almond paste) to fight anemia. Later, in the 11th century, the polymath Ibn Sina suggested its paste be applied to dog bites and scorpion stings. The Missouri Botanical Garden of St. Louis, which researches modern ethno-botanical medicine, suggests, however, that the nuts simply be “left for the squirrels.”

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Saudi Aramco World : The Hazelnuts of Trabzon

                                      Corylus avellana-Hazelnuts - فُندق