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Fenugreek seed is the ripe fruit of an annual herb. This robust herb has light green leaves, is 30-60 cm tall and produces slender, beaked pods, 10-15 cm long, each pod contains 10-20 small hard yellowish brown seeds, which are smooth and oblong, about 3mm long, each grooved across one corner, giving them a hooked appearance.
The seeds are used in colic flatulence, dysentery, diarrhoea, dyspepsia, chronic cough and enlargement of liver and spleen, rickets, gout and diabetes.
Fenugreek seed whole consist of dried ripe seed of trigonella foenumgraecum. The colour is carramel to light brownish-yellow. Odour and taste are typical, a bit of cellery and bitter. Free from foregn odour and taste, such as mustiness or rancidity. |
