Experiment 926320
Details
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Pharmacology | |
| Administration route | ORAL |
| Organism | Trigonella foenum-graecum (FABACEAE) |
| Citation | BHATIA,RS:. (1989). HIGH FIBRE DIET-METHI SEEDS - IN DIABETES MELLITUS.. 37(5) |
| Amount utilized | |
| Compound isolated | |
| Disease | THIS LETTER TO THE EDITOR INDICATES THAT A PHYSICIAN USING FENUGREEK (METHI) SEEDS IN DIABETIC PATIENTS LOWERED BLOOD GLUCOSE AS WELL AS CHOLESTEROL LEVELS IN DIABETIC PATIENTS. THEY CLAIM THAT THE EFFECT IS BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE GUM FIBRE IN THE SEEDS AS WELL AS TRIGONELLINE(AN ALKALOID HAVING AN EFFECT ON GLYCOSURIA. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT FENUGREEK SEEDS BE USED AS A DIETARY SUPPLEMENT IN INDIA BY DIABETIC PATIENTS. |
| Number | 1 |
| Qualitative result | ACTIVE |
| Animal | HUMAN ADULT |
| Dose expression | DOSE |
| Extract | SEEDS |