Studying the Effect of Trigonella Foenum Graecum on Hymenolepis Nana in Mice

This study carried out to test the efficacy of Trigonella foenum graecum (plant, stems and leaves water extract and seeds water extract) on Hymenolepis nana infection, in vivo and in vitro. In vivo study, Blab/c mice were used, infected with H. nana were orally administrated (60mg/ml) water leaves and stems extract, (60mg/ml) water seeds extract and (200mg/day) fresh plant given as food. It was found that the efficacy of fresh plant had reached 87.1% after 6 days post treatment, while the efficacy of leaves and stems and seed water extract reached 85.33% and 86.66% after 9 and 8 days respectively after treatment. For in vitro study, it was found that the water plant extract had killed the embryo inside the egg within 12 hours, and no infection occurs after inoculated to the mice.