印度驚現神奇烹飪作料 竟有催情效果
草本植物香料可以使得你的咖喱菜餚的口味更佳豐富與誘人。
But fenugreek can also spice up your sex life, a study suggests.
一份最新研究還顯示，苦豆（香料的一種，也是一種藥草）還能使人“性”趣盎然，爲性生活加分不少。
Men taking it can boost their sex drive by at least a quarter, researchers found.
研究人員發現，食用這種香料能使男性雄姿勃發，激發性慾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.
六十位年齡在二十五到五十歲之間的身體健康的男性在六週之內，每天都食用了這種草本植物的提取物。
Their libido levels were Monitored using a scoring system to assess any changes after three and six weeks.
研究者們對這些男性的性慾浮動情況進行了檢測，並且採用了計分系統直觀表徵，觀察他們在三到六週之後在這方面的變化。
Within six weeks, their scores had soared by an average of 16.1 to 20.6 – a 28 per cent rise.
在這六週之內，這些男性的性慾指數從平均值達到了16.1到20.6之間，提升了28%。
Meanwhile, another group of men taking dummy pills saw their scores fall.
了與此同時，另外一組男性服用了“安慰劑”（一種西方國家從精神上治療的一種方式,主要是用和真的藥品外貌一樣的“假藥”給病人服用,這種藥品主要起的作用是讓病人起心理作用,這樣的治療有很好的效果。），他們的性慾指數出現了下滑。Fenugreek seeds contain compounds called saponins which are thought to stimulate production of male sex hormones including testosterone.
苦豆中含有一種皁角化合物質，他被認爲是可以刺激男性荷爾蒙的分泌，其中包括了睾丸素（關乎於男性雄風的重要荷爾蒙）。
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.’
這項研究是由澳大利亞布里斯班的臨牀與分子醫學中心所進行的，研究人員稱：“結果表明，在食用了草藥之後，男性在性功能與實際是表現方面出現了顯著的提高。”
Fenugreek is a bean-like plant that grows throughout Asia and features widely in Indian cooking.
苦豆，又名胡蘆巴，一個豆狀植物，主要生長在亞洲地區，並在印度飲食烹飪中廣泛運用。
Its leaves and seeds have been used to treat fever since the time of the ancient Egyptians.
早在古埃及時代，埃及人們便會使用它的葉子與糉子來治療發燒的症狀。
