Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Fenugreek

FENUGREEK, or Trigonella fœnumgræcum, L. is a native of the Southern parts of France, Germany and Italy, whence its yellowish seeds are annually imported. They possess a strong, disagreeable smell, and an unctuous, farinaceous, and somewhat bitter, taste. These seeds are chiefly employed in cataplasms, and fomentations, for softening, maturating, and discussing tumors: they are also occasionally used in emollient and carminative clysters.