What Are the Medicinal Uses of Fenugreek?
Fenugreek, the name of Chinese herbal medicine. This product is the seed of the legume plant Rongluba. When the fruit is mature, the whole grass is cut, the seeds are laid, and the seeds are dried. Raw or slightly fried. Function Indications: warm kidney, dispel cold, and relieve pain. Used for kidney cold, lower abdominal cold pain, small intestinal hernia, cold and damp athlete's foot.
- Chinese name
- Fenugreek
- Chinese name
- Hu Lu Ba
- Alias
- Bitter bean, vanilla
- Fenugreek, the name of Chinese herbal medicine. This product is the seed of the legume plant Rongluba. When the fruit is mature, the whole grass is cut, the seeds are laid, and the seeds are dried. Raw or slightly fried. Function Indications: warm kidney, dispel cold, and relieve pain. Used for kidney cold, lower abdominal cold pain, small intestinal hernia, cold and damp athlete's foot.
Fenugreek source
- This product is the seed of the legume plant Rongluba. When the fruit is mature, the whole grass is cut, the seeds are laid, and the seeds are dried. Raw or slightly fried.
Fenugreek taste
- Sex is warm and bitter.
Fenugreek function indications
- Warm the kidney, dispel cold, and relieve pain. Used for kidney cold, lower abdominal cold pain, small intestinal hernia, cold and damp athlete's foot.
Fenugreek morphological characteristics
- Annual herb, 20 80cm tall, the whole plant has aroma. Stems erect, clustered, sparsely hairy. Three compound leaves grow alternately; leaflets are ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1-3.5 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm wide, sparsely pubescent on both sides; petiole long, stipules and petiole connate. Flowers sessile, 1 or 2 axillary; calyx tube-shaped; corolla butterfly-shaped, white, later yellowish, slightly purple at base; stamens 10, two-body; ovary linear, pods slender, flat-cylindrical, slightly Curved, 6-11 cm long, 0.5 cm wide, with reticulate veins and pubescent hairs, with a long beak at the apex. 10 to 20 seeds, brown, fragrant. Flowering from April to June, fruiting from July to August.
Fenugreek distribution area
- Mainly produced in Anhui, Sichuan, Henan.
Fenugreek growing environment
- More cultivation.
Fenugreek properties
- The seeds are slightly oblique, 3 to 5 mm long, 2 to 3 mm wide, and about 2 mm thick. The surface is yellow-brown or red-brown, with slightly gray short hairs, and a deep oblique groove on each side. Hard. The aroma is slightly bitter.
Fenugreek chemical composition
- Contains trigonellinelline, diosgenin-BD-blucoside, vitexin, saponaretin, isoorientin, vitexin-7- Glucoside (vitexin-7-glucoside), trigonelline , and vicinin ().