Helba Or Fenugreek

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Plants of the glorious family Legumes are always ready to help people. They will feed, and give water, and fight against pathogenic microbes, and also restore health to the depleted soil. Overseas Helba is also famous for its healing abilities

Multi-name plants

A person is so arranged that he loves to look for miracles beyond the seas-oceans, not noticing them next to him. So people from Egypt are bringing the fruits of Helba, which have broad healing abilities, although exactly the same plant grows in Eastern Europe, only people call it Fenugreek.

There are other names of the plant that sound like mysterious music to the Russian ear: Shambhala, Metkhi, Chaman …

Perhaps Helba captivates people with its ancient history. After all, the Egyptian papyri, the age of which scientists have determined at three and a half thousand years, passed on to the descendants the recipes for using Helba seeds to maintain human health. And in the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, who suffered from many ailments and died in 1323 BC, dried seeds of Helba were found.

Annual plant

All these beautiful names are given by an annual plant from the legume family, unpretentious to the soil, but loving warm and dry weather.

The branchy stem of Helba rises above the ground a little more than half a meter. The taproot penetrates deeper into the soil to provide food for the aboveground part of the plant.

The stem is covered with tripartite small leaves with a jagged edge, egg-shaped. In the axils of the leaves, yellowish-white miniature flowers nestled, resembling moths at rest.

The pollinated flowers turn into rather long beans (up to 10 cm), inside which the seeds are located. Unlike our usual oval seed-beans, Helba's seeds are angular and small, and therefore at first glance they can be mistaken for some kind of grain, for example, inferior buckwheat.

It's amazing how such a simple plant manages to fill its seeds with a huge amount of nutrients.

Nutritional value of fenugreek

Fenugreek or Helba fruits contain proteins and carbohydrates; vitamins important for humans, such as vitamin "C", "A", "B6"; antioxidants and acids (folic, nicotinic); alimentary fiber; as well as a number of trace elements (potassium, calcium, iron, copper, magnesium, phosphorus, selenium, zinc).

This rich content makes Fenugreek an attractive culinary destination. In India, for example, young fragrant shoots of the plant are served as a seasoning for meat dishes, and the seeds are used in the preparation of many national dishes. Sprouted seeds are added to salads.

In Egypt, Helba seeds are brewed like tea. This tea has a yellow color and a peculiar bitter taste. Perfectly cleanses the digestive tract, eliminating ailments and problems with the digestion of food. Delicious cookies are baked for tea, which also includes Helba.

Healing abilities of Helba or Fenugreek

Helba's healing abilities are so wide that one is simply amazed. But, perhaps, most often it is attracted to help the human digestive system. Abdominal colic, gastrointestinal problems, constipation, anthelmintic, diabetes mellitus.

Helba will help relieve coughing attacks, get rid of bronchitis and asthma.

Protects the body from cancer.

The gruel made from seeds boiled with boiling water will strengthen the hair roots, destroy microbes, relieve dandruff from the head, and accelerate hair growth, which will become shiny and attractive. To do this, it is necessary to apply such gruel to the head twice a month, rubbing it into the skin for 40 minutes. After the procedure, you should thoroughly rinse your head with shampoo.

Gruel masks will improve the skin, make it smooth and elastic

For men, it will add sexual strength, and for women it will relieve painful symptoms during menstruation and reduce pain during childbirth.