Plant Trigonella foenum-graecum (Fabaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Fenugreek; Greek Clover; Greek Hay; Bockshornklee (Ger.); Alholva (Sp.)

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
DIOSCIN	6	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSGENIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSGENIN	7	Pericarp	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSGENIN	7	Plant	not available	5000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSGENIN	7	Root	not available	6200.0	0.74	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSGENIN	7	Seed	900.0	19000.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSGENIN	7	Sprout Seedling	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSGENIN	7	Stem	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
DIOSGENIN	7	Tissue Culture	not available	18.2	-0.71	Duke, 1992 *
ELEMENE	3	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
ENDO-BETA-MANNANASE	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EO	0	Seed	not available	100.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
EPISARSASAPOGENIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
EPISMILAGENIN	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FAT	0	Seed	8320.0	64000.0	-1.06	Duke, 1992 *
FENUGREEK-INHIBITOR-TFI-A-8	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FENUGREEK-INHIBITOR-TFI-B-2	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FENUGREEK-INHIBITOR-TFN-N-2	0	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
FENUGREEKINE	10	Plant	98.0	267.0	not available	J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
FENUGREEKINE	10	Seed	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Paralytic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Parasiticide	1	Martindale's 29th
Parasympathomimetic	2	Borchard, R. E., Barnes, C. D., and Eltherton, L. G. 1991. Drug Dosage in Laboratory Animals: A Handbook. (3rd Ed.) The Telford Press, Inc., P. O. Box 287, Caldwell NJ 07006.
Percutaneostimulant	1	Seki, T., Toeda, C., Kawaguchi, T., Juni, K., Sugibayashi, K., and Morimoto, Y. 1990. Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Zidovudine in Rats and Human Skin. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(11): 3086-3089, 1990.
Perfumery	2	Aloe Research Council - Duke writeup of non-peer reviewd book by Coats and draft by Henry
Peristaltic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Peroxidase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pesticide	30	Duke, 1992 *
PGE2-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phagocytotic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Phospholipase-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Phytoalexin	1	Nigg, H.N. and Seigler, D.S., eds. 1992. Phytochemical Resources for Medicine and Agriculture. Plenum Press, New York. 445 pp.
Piscicide	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Pituitary-sensitizer	1	Medline (post 1990 searches filed in my computer)
Pituitary-Stimulant	1	Duke, 1992 *
PKC-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Plasmodicide	1	Neuwinger, H. D. 1996. African Ethnobotany - Poisons and Drugs. Chapman & Hall, New York. 941 pp.
Polyamine-Synthesis-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Poultice	1	Martindale's 29th
Preservative	1	Merck 11th Edition