I. SUMMARY Plants are used medicinally in different countries and are a source of many potent and powerful drugs. Fenugreek is an medicinal plant that use in disease some therapy. Natural products have been a major source of new drugs [1]. Medicinal plants are used by 80% of the world population as the only available medicines especially in developing countries [2]. Fenugreek is one of the olde...

In this study, the subcritical butane extraction process of fenugreek seed oil was optimized using response surface methodology with a Box-Behnken design. The optimum conditions for extracted oil from fenugreek seed was as follows: extraction temperature of 43.24 °C , extraction time of 32.80 min, and particle size of 0.26 mm. No significant differences were found between the experimental and p...

Germination models are really useful in predicting seed germination, attributed to their application economic crop management. Hence, we evaluated cardinal temperatures (Ts), germination behavior, and model coefficients of fenugreek under varying (Ts; 10, 20, 30, 40 °C) water potentials (ψs 0, −0.01, −0.02, −0.05 MPa). We observed that the maximum minimum hydrotime constant (θH) values at 20 °C...

AIM This study was undertaken to assess the pharmacodynamic interaction of fenugreek, insulin and glimepiride on sero-biochemical parameters in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 56 male Sprague-Dawley rats, randomly divided into seven Groups. Group 1: Non-diabetic control; Group 2: Streptozotocin induced diabetic control; Groups 3, 4 and 5 were treated wit...

Fenugreek is a medicinal plant whose seeds are widely used in traditional medicine, mainly for its laxative, galactagogue and antidiabetic effects. However, consumption of fenugreek seeds during pregnancy has been associated with a range of congenital malformations, including hydrocephalus, anencephaly and spina bifida in humans. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effects of prenat...

Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) seeds do not contain starch as carbohydrate reserve. Synthesis of starch is initiated after germination. A β-amylase from ungerminated fenugreek seeds was purified to apparent electrophoretic homogeneity. The enzyme was purified 210 fold with specific activity of 732.59 units/mg. Mr of the denatured enzyme as determined from SDS-PAGE was 58 kD while that of...

Purpose: Trigonella foenum-Graceum Linn commonly known as fenugreek has a long history of traditional use in ayurveda and Chinese medicine and has been used for numerous indications, including labor induction, aiding digestion and to improve metabolism and diuresis. The present study was to evaluate the diuretic activity as traditionally claimed, from successive petroleum ether, benzene, ethano...

India is a country of herbs where a lot of varieties are cultivated, and their formulation developed and used for preventing, mitigating and curing of diseases and other health problems. Trigonella foenumgraecum (Fenugreek) is one of them. Its origin is in India and Northern Africa. The plant contains a variety of components i.e. alkaloids, glycoside, polyphenols, steroids, amino acids and vola...

The insecticidal effect of six commercially available plant oils was tested against 4th larval instars of Culex pipiens. Larvae were originally collected from Meit El-Attar, Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt, and then reared in the laboratory until F1 generation. The LC50 values were 32.42, 47.17, 71.37, 83.36, 86.06, and 152.94 ppm for fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-grecum), earth almond (Cyperus escu...

Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.) is an annual forage legume and an important aromatic medicinal plant that is commercially used as spices in major parts of the world. The plant is known for its superior qualities of pharmaceutically and nutraceutically rich in several phytochemicals including several important complex carbohydrates, amino acids, steroids and saponins. The commercial ext...