Dear Readers, Fenugreek is a leafy vegetable with excellent medicinal properties. It is very helpful to keep the body healthy and fit and it nature boon to mankind. It cures anemia, lactation and pregnancy, digestive problems and biliousness.

Fenugreek is erect with the strong scent and annual herb about 50 cm high. Its flowers are yellow in color with pointed thin pods 6 cm long. There are two types of fenugreek known as Champa Methi and Marwari Methi, both the varieties are recommended for cultivation. It is cool season crop and grows in all over India.

Fenugreek Food Value

In India fenugreek is called as methi and it is a leafy vegetable. Steaming is the best method of cooking as the vitamins are retain in this process. The dried leaves get comparing to pulses for the protein content in it. They have the supplement of the lysine-deficient diets.

Fenugreek seeds contain fetid and bitter oil resin, albumin and mucilage. Their vitamin and mineral are high. In India, seeds are using for many purposes and generally, it is used as the condiment.

Fenugreek contains

Moisture 86.1 %, fat 0.9%, protein 4.4%, fibre 1.1%, minerals 1.5%, phosphorus 51 mg. Carbohydrates 60%, calcium 395 mg, iron 16.5 mg, vitamin C and vitamin B complex in small quantity

Curative properties in Fenugreek

Fenugreek leaves are aromatic, cooling and mild for the body. Regularly apply the fresh leaves paste over the scalp before 1 hour of taking bath. It lengthens hair, preserves the natural color of the hair and makes it soft and silky.

Take fresh fenugreek leaves make a paste and apply on face before going to bed and wash with warm water. It is an excellent remedy to cure blackheads, pimples, dryness of the skin, wrinkles and premature aging. It is also useful to improve complexion and makes the skin fair and lovely.

Fenugreek seeds are demulcent, carminative and diuretic. Which is helpful to relieve gastric, lactagogue, discomforts, increases the flow of milk, astringent and aphrodisiac tonic. It is the best cleanser for the skin and seeds are use to prepare hair tonic and cosmetics in Java.

Anaemia Cure

Fenugreek leaves are helpful in blood formation. Cooked leaves are use to prevent anemia. Fenugreek seeds are rich in iron and an excellent remedy for anemia.

Lactation and Pregnancy

Fry fenugreek seeds in ghee and makes powder. Mix this powder with wheat flour and sugar and prepare halwa. Take this halwa in small quantity daily helps normalization after baby birth (delivery).

The seeds made into gruel, are the best diet for nursing mothers for increasing the milk flow.

Digestive Problems-Biliousness

Fenugreek leaves are very beneficial to treat indigestion problems, sluggish liver, and Flatulence. They heal mouth ulcer problems. It is useful to cure ulcer, gargle with an infusion of the fenugreek leaves.

To get rid of biliousness take boiled or fried fenugreek leaves in butter. Fenugreek seeds are useful in the treatment of colic, dysentery, flatulence, dyspepsia, and diarrhea.

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