FENUGREEK SEEDS Botanical Name: Trigonella Foenum-graecum L

Botanical Name: Trigonella Foenum-graecum L

Fenugreek is a small annual herb grows up to 60cm in height, Plant stems are long and slender. Leaves are trifoliate, toothed and grey-green in color. Fenugreek seed pods contain about ten to twenty flat, pungent and aromatic small stony seeds. These seeds are oblong shaped and yellow-brown in color.

Fenugreek seeds have a strong aroma and slightly bitter in taste. Its largely employed Worldwide as a spice to flavors food, and also used as a medicine, to treat diabetes in adults (late-onset diabetes), poor digestion, gastric inflammation, digestive disorders and fevers. It is also used for the treatment of wounds, abscesses, arthritis and bronchitis. It has excellent medicinal virtues. Chinese herbalists used it for kidney problems. Its also used to produce yellow dye.