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Abstract
Trigonella foenum-graecum (fenugreek) leguminosea is an annual, hebeecous plant widely distributed in may parts of Asia, Africa and Europe. It was known to the Egyptians and Romana. The seed is used as a food, apice and in native medicine. It is considered to be a potential economic source of diosgenin and yanogenin for the steroid industry which is estimated to require some 1.5 million kilogram of plant steroid (1), A mixture of diosgenin and yamogenin is an acceptable as diosgenin alone for the partial synthesis of pharmaceutical steroids.
The seeds of the other species examined were usually similar in appearance to that of Trigonella foenum-graecum but they were generally smaller in size. Trigonella cretica was the only exception which was of the same size as commerical fenugreek seed from Pakistan and India. In some parts of Pakistan and India, its young tops are currently used as green vegetable and the dried herb as a flavouring agents, where the seeds are used for the treatment of swellings and bruises (1)
Trigonella coerulea has been reported to be cultivated in gardens of south Germany and Switzerland, as well as, in Eastern Europe. In Switzerland the seeds has been used to flavour a special cheese ”Schabziger-Kase”, and the plant has been used in the herbal medicine. Trigonella occulta.