Pistacia khinjuk is used in Iranian folk medicine as an indigestion, tonic, toothache and astringent (Pirbalouti and Aghaee, 2011).
The essential oil of the plant showed moderate in vitro anthelmintic activity against Echinoccus granulosus (Taran et al., 2009).
The different leaves extracts of Pistacia khinjuk (chloroform, ethyl acetate, ethyl alcohol, diethyl ether) showed antibacterial and antifungal activities (Taran et al., 2010b,c).
The leaves and unripe fruits possess wound healing activity (Tohidi et al., 2011). The methanol extract of the plant possesses anti-inflammatory activity (Esmat et al., 2012).
The effectiveness of adsorption for dye removal from waste waters on to shells of bittim (Pistacia khinjuk) (BTS) has been reported.
The adsorption process was found to be spontaneous, endothermic and physical in nature.
Locally available adsorbent BTS was found to have a low cost and was promising for the removal of Acid Red 183 and Acid Green 25 from aqueous solutions (Aydin and Baysal, 2006).
The pyrolysis of the seeds was studied. The maximum bio-oil yield of 66.5% with the use of Criterion-424 and 69.2% with the use of BP 3189 were obtained at the catalytic pyrolysis conditions, while it was only 57.6% without catalyst (Onay, 2007).