Al-Marsad newspaper: Fenugreek seeds are used in cooking and various foods, or medicinal formulations, and the leaves of the fenugreek plant are consumed as food in some countries such as India..
According to “Web Medicine”, the uses of the fenugreek plant began in the past in alternative folk medicine, and many studies have been conducted recently on the effectiveness of using fenugreek in pharmaceutical formulations to reduce the level of sugar and fats in the blood, treating obesity, cancer, infections and various infectious diseases..
Benefits of drinking boiled fenugreek?
- Increased milk secretion in breastfeeding women: Women’s milk is the best source of food for the infant, as some studies have shown that drinking fenugreek daily has an effective and direct effect on increasing milk secretion in nursing women..
- Increase testosterone level in males: One of the most important uses of fenugreek is the use of nutritional supplements that contain fenugreek. Some studies conducted on males have proven to increase their sexual ability when taking nutritional supplements that contain fenugreek for 8 weeks.
- Regulating the level of sugar in the blood: Some studies conducted on patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes have shown that eating fenugreek boiled or fenugreek powder helped to secrete the hormone insulin, thus reducing blood sugar..
- Female period pain: Taking fenugreek boiled three times a day at the beginning of the menstrual cycle (that is, in the first three days) helps reduce the pain associated with stomach cramps, and thus reduce the need to take pharmacological painkillers..
- Reduce appetite: Some studies have shown that eating fenugreek daily helps to reduce the intake of fatty foods and reduce appetite to some extent.
- Blood cholesterol level: Some studies have shown that fenugreek has a significant role in reducing cholesterol and triglycerides in human blood.
- Heartburn: The results of some studies have shown that fenugreek has a role in improving heartburn symptoms with an effect similar to the well-known antacid drugs..
- Infections: Fenugreek also helped some studies conducted on animals in treating infections.
