Botanical name:
Trigonella foenum graecum L.
Trigonella foenum graecum L.
Healing power:
- to strengthen the hair,
- for building red hemoglobin. It´s good for athletes, because Fenugreek increases the power by better supplyment of oxygen to the cells.
- to strengthen the immunesystem
- to renew cells,
- to promote peristalsis.
How to use:
Mahlte the seeds and eat them as mush several times per day.
You also can make tea: Pour 1/8 litre of water on 1 soupspoon of fenugreek powder, boil it for a short time and then pass it through a sieve.
Fenugreek is a common ingredient of curry powder.
Description of the plant:
Fenugreek is annual, reaches a height up to 60 cm and gets in the time between May and July yellow-white or yellow flowers. The leaves look like clover.
Fenugreek belongs to the papilionaceae and builds a taproot.
Fenugreek you find from the Mediterranean area to Central asia.
Even Hildegard von Bingen reported about Fenugreek.
Propagation:
Start seeds from March in rows in a rowdistance of 20 cm directly in your garden.
Ingredients:
proteins, sterioidsaponines, steroles, flavonoides, essential oil, fat, carbohydrates, mucus, vitamin C, enzymes, essential amino acids (Lysin), vitamin B, beta-carotin, copper, trigonellin, cholin.
