Fennel

Fennel

Fennel contains anethole, which can explain some of its medical effects: it, or its polymers, act as phytoestrogens. For a sweet, anise-like flavor, add fennel to pasta sauces, soups and vinaigrettes.

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A member of the carrot family, Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) is a native of Italy and one of the most ancient of cultivated plants.

The Roman colonization of Italy spread the early use of the plant, especially for culinary purposes.

Used as a flavoring for salt-water fish, it was also used to whiten, tenderize and deodorize the meat.

The odor of Fennel seed is fragrant and the taste is warm, sweet and agreeable.

Similar in taste to Dill and Anise, Fennel may be substituted for them in recipes for interesting effects.

The shoots and stalks can also be eaten raw like celery.

In addition to Fennel's culinary uses, it adds a sharp scent to potpourris, sachets, perfumes and soaps.

Fennel Seeds

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A Medical Food for the Dietary Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).

Active ingredients: Peppermint oil, ginger oil, fennel oil. For Use Under a Physician's Supervision.

Heather's Tummy Tamers Peppermint oil capsules, as part of the diet, have been clinically proven to help IBS symptoms, even in children.

Peppermint, as part of the diet, helps relieve abdominal pain, diarrhea, and urgency from IBS.

Menthol and methyl salicylate, the main active ingredients of peppermint, have calming effects on the stomach and intestinal tract.

Although peppermint is such a powerful smooth muscle relaxant that it can trigger GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease) or heartburn in people who are susceptible, Heather's Tummy Tamers Peppermint Oil Caps are enteric coated so they do not dissolve in the stomach.

Instead, they pass through the digestive tract intact until they reach the intestines.

Heather's Tummy Tamers Peppermint Oil Capsules are considered a medical food, and they are specially formulated to address global IBS symptoms through the synergistic effects of peppermint, fennel, and ginger oils.

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Fennel Growing

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For a sweet, anise-like flavor, add fennel to pasta sauces, soups and vinaigrettes.

Lightly crush and add to green salads or vegetable recipes.

Try one-half teaspoon in breads, meatball and curry dishes to add warm flavor.

Encapsulated Fennel seed carefully screened to assure potency, purity and quality.

Fennel seed is historically used to aid digestion and sweeten the breath.

It is used in many European cough remedies because of its reputation for loosening phlegm.

Fennel Fruit (seeds)

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Sizes: 6 oz. Flavors: Cinnamint, Fennel, Gingermint Baking Soda, Peppermint Baking Soda, Spearmint.

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Fennel in Flower Growing

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Fennel seeds are a common cooking spice worldwide, popular with fish and curries.

Fennel is an element of Chinese five spice powder, and is part of innumerable traditional Mediterranean, Arabic, Iranian, Indian and European recipes.

Fennel's sweet earthy taste enhances meat dishes, fish, breads, pickles and vinegar.

The herb is also traditional in Chinese, Arab, Indian and Western pharmacopoeias.

After meals, fennel seeds are used in several cultures to prevent gas and upset stomach.

The 1997 Commission E on Phytotherapy and Herbal Substances of the German Federal Institute for Drugs recommends Fennel seed for 'Dyspepsias such as mild, spastic gastrointestinal afflictions, fullness, flatulence. Catarrh of the upper respiratory tract. Fennel syrup, fennel honey: catarrh of the upper respiratory tract in children.'

'Side Effects: In individual cases allergic reactions of skin and respiratory tract.' 'Daily dosage: 5 - 7 g herb; 10 - 20 g fennel syrup or honey (Erg. B. 6); 5 - 7.5 g compound fennel tincture; equivalent preparations.

Mode of Administration: Crushed or ground seeds for teas, tea-like products, as well as other galenical preparations for internal use.

Duration of Administration Fennel preparations should not be used on a prolonged basis (several weeks) without consulting a physician or pharmacist.'

'Actions: Promotes gastrointestinal motility, in higher concentrations acts as an antispasmodic.

Experimentally, anethole and fenchone have been shown to have a secretolytic action in the respiratory tract; in the frog, aqueous fennel extracts raise the mucociliary activity of the ciliary epithelium.'

The main active constituents, which include the terpenoid anethole, are found in the volatile oil.

Anethole and other terpenoids may have mild estrogen-like activity, and inhibit spasms in smooth muscles, such as those in the intestinal tract.

Recent studies have found fennel to possess diuretic, choleretic (bile-producing), pain-reducing, fever-reducing, and antimicrobial actions.

Fennel was formerly an official drug in the United States and was listed as being used for indigestion and possibly for stimulating milk flow in women.

Whole seeds may be chewed or used in tea.

Grieve's classic 'A Modern Herbal': 'On account of its aromatic and carminative properties, Fennel fruit is chiefly used medicinally with purgatives to allay their tendency to griping and for this purpose forms one of the ingredients of the well-known compound Liquorice Powder.'

'Fennel water has properties similar to those of anise and dill water: mixed with sodium bicarbonate and syrup, these waters constitute the domestic 'Gripe Water,' used to correct the flatulence of infants.'

'Volatile oil of Fennel has these properties in concentration.

Fennel tea, formerly also employed as a carminative, is made by pouring half a pint of boiling water on a teaspoonful of bruised Fennel seeds. 

Fennel Seeds

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Functions: Descend qi downward, Resolve phlegm, Dispel heat, Disperse wind-heat.

Indication: Lung heat phlegm, cough, asthma, wheezing, feeling of fullness in the chest, hiccoughs.

The dried root is analgesic, antibacterial, antifungal, antitussive, carminative, expectorant and febrifuge.

A decoction is used in the treatment of colds and headaches, coughing and asthma, tightness in the chest (labored or difficult breathing).

In treating cough with yellow and sticky sputum and stuffy chest due to heat in lung, the drug can be used in combination with Semen Armeniacae Amarum, Cortex Mori Radicis, etc.

In treating cough with shortness of breath due to accumulation of lung-Qi, or vomitting and poor appetite, the drug can be used in combination with Rhizoma Pinelliae, Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae, Fructus Perillae, etc.

Induces secretion of mucus in respiratory tract to dilute hard phlegm in bronchial subes and facilitate bringing it up.

Use with caution in cases who take blood thinning medication.

Qian Hu has known anti-platelet action.

Do not use in cases with cough due to Yin Deficiency Fire.

Do not use for cough and wheezing with cold, thin mucous.

Dosage 6-10 grams in decoction.

Fennel Bulbs

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Cardamon and fennel

Functions: Regulate flow of qi. Warm the stomach. Relieve pain.

Indication: Spleen and Stomach cold deficiency and obstruction, emaciation, nausea, vomiting, dull or mild pain beneath the heart, vomiting of gastric acid, soft and weak abdomen, deficient and thready pulse.

Fennel Herb Illustration

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Foeniculum vulgare. A common spice that is traditionally used to improve digestion and absorption without increasing pitta.

The seeds are also chewed after meals to freshen the breath and alleviate gas.

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