Nasroallah Moradi kor - Department of Pharmacology, Iranian Society of Physiology and Pharmacology, Tehran, Iran
Mohamad Bagher Didarshetaban - MD Graduated, Guillan University of Medical Science, Guillan, Iran
Hamid Reza Saeid Pour - M.sc. Student of Food Industrial, Sarvestan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sarvestan, Iran

Fenugreek is an medicinal plant that use in disease some therapy. This plant use for blood lipids and sugar decreasing in diabetic and non diabetic peoples and have antioxidant and antibacterial activity. The plant contains active constituents such as alkaloids, flavonoids, steroids, Saponins etc. It is an old medicinal plant. It has been commonly used as a traditional food and medicine. Fenugreek is known to have hypoglycemic, and hypocholesterolaemic, effects, Anti-inflammatory effects. Recent research has identified fenugreek as a valuable medicinal plant with potential for curing diseases and also as a sourcefor preparing raw materials of pharmaceutical industry, like in steroidal hormones. Since fenugreek is a self-pollinated crop, a mutation breeding method can be used to generate mutants with a determinate growth habit. Irradiation and chemical mutagens can be used to produce point mutations in fenugreek

Trigonella foenum-graecum L., Fenugreek, Pharmaceutical Effects