Support horn clover (Trigonella foenum graecum) belongs to Unterfamilie (Faboideae) to the family of the (Fabaceae). It is a one year's plant high up to 60 cm. That support horn clover is closely related to the Schabzigerklee (Trigonella caerulea).

Latin name foenum graecum "“Greek hay"” means. Further names are cow horn clover, goat horn, Hirschwundkraut, deer grains, Fenugreek, fine Grete, Filigrazie, beautiful Margreth, filter times, hour herb.

Description

The clover-like sheets are triple, gestielt, approx. 2 cm long, oblong eggly-shaped and at the ends something sawed. The plant has rounds, branched rung and is enough for stake root. It flowers from May to June. The blooms are small, yellowish white and at the reason lightviolet and stand at a short handle in the Blattachseln. From them long, narrow, cases develop to 10 cm. In them are the hard, rectangular seeds. The entire plant has a strong smell. It prefers locations with much sunlight and rather lehmigem soil.

Food

In dry countries in the Near East, in North Africa and in Spain is cultivated support horn clover this very day as food or fodder plant. It tolerates also a high soil salting degree. Beyond that it is used as spice plant. Support horn clover is a for example substantial component of Curry. Likewise the seeds - like also Schabziegerklee - are used in small quantities as bread spice (South Tyrol). In the Near East is gladly roasted, cooked support horn clover or freshly eaten. Alholva, like many plant names of the iberischen peninsula (see also Kaper), a borrowing from the Arab one is Spanish: aluminium-hulbah "„that support horn clover "“. The Arab name hulbah and its Hebrew Pendent hilbeh are probably natively semitisch and are probably derived from the root "„milk "“, which is appropriate also for the name of the Mahaleb cherry to reason. The motive for designation would be then the people-medical often used milk driving (galaktogoge) effect. Its name on Persian is "“Shambelile"”.

History

That support horn clover originally originates from the Perserreich. Its use can be retraced up to the old Egyptians, where it played both in Pflanzenheilkunde and birth assistance and in religious actions a role. He found use in addition, promptly in the garden architecture in the Empire of China, in India, in Greece and with the Romans. It is to have been Karl the large one, who introduced it as feed to Central Europe. Hildegard of being gene calls it as cure against skin diseases. This very day that seems to support horn clover in southern and middle Germany wildly, although he is not agriculturally cultivated any longer.

Naturopathy

Support horn clover seeds are used in the Pflanzenheilkunde with easier or than parallel medication even with heavier diabetes (similarly an oral Antidiabetikum). They cause as can be prove a lowering of the blood sugar and the LDL Cholesterins. A usual dose are approx. 25 g seed powders per day.

Outward application as edition or wind restrains inflammations and lindert for nose beside cave inflammations, breath way complaints or rheumatism, furthermore also Hauteiterungen or Ekzeme. In addition 50 g seed husbands are cooked and with 250 ml for water to a mash.

Support horn clover seeds are available as dte, as powders or as finished editions.

See also: List of the kitchen herbs and spices, list of the welfare plants

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