It's a herb you may have used to add flavour to your curries. 草本植物香料可以使得你的咖喱菜肴的口味更佳丰富与诱人。
But fenugreek can also spice up your sex life, a study suggests.
一份最新研究还显示，苦豆（香料的一种，也是一种药草）还能使人“性”趣盎然，为性生活加分不少。
Men taking it can boost their sex drive by at least a quarter, researchers found.
研究人员发现，食用这种香料能使男性雄姿勃发，激发性欲的提高至少近四分之一。
Sixty healthy men aged between 25 and 52 took an extract of the herb twice a day for six weeks.
六十位年龄在二十五到五十岁之间的身体健康的男性在六周之内，每天都食用了这种草本植物的提取物。
Their libido levels were monitored using a scoring system to assess any changes after three and six weeks.
研究者们对这些男性的性欲浮动情况进行了检测，并且采用了计分系统直观表征，观察他们在三到六周之后在这方面的变化。
Within six weeks, their scores had soared by an average of 16.1 to 20.6 – a 28 per cent rise.
在这六周之内，这些男性的性欲指数从平均值达到了16.1到20.6之间，提升了28%。
Meanwhile, another group of men taking dummy pills saw their scores fall.
了与此同时，另外一组男性服用了“安慰剂”（一种西方国家从精神上治疗的一种方式,主要是用和真的药品外貌一样的“假药”给病人服用,这种药品主要起的作用是让病人起心理作用,这样的治疗有很好的效果。），他们的性欲指数出现了下滑。
Fenugreek seeds contain compounds called saponins which are thought to stimulate production of male sex hormones including testosterone.
苦豆中含有一种皂角化合物质，他被认为是可以刺激男性荷尔蒙的分泌，其中包括了睾丸素（关乎于男性雄风的重要荷尔蒙）。
The tests were carried out by researchers from the Centre for Integrative Clinical and Molecular Medicine in Brisbane, Australia, who said: ‘This study has demonstrated that there was significant improvement in sexual function and performance following treatment.’
这项研究是由澳大利亚布里斯班的临床与分子医学中心所进行的，研究人员称：“结果表明，在食用了草药之后，男性在性功能与实际是表现方面出现了显著的提高。”
Fenugreek is a bean-like plant that grows throughout Asia and features widely in Indian cooking.
苦豆，又名胡芦巴，一个豆状植物，主要生长在亚洲地区，并在印度饮食烹饪中广泛运用。
Its leaves and seeds have been used to treat fever since the time of the ancient Egyptians.
早在古埃及时代，埃及人们便会使用它的叶子与粽子来治疗发烧的症状。