Fennel.Fructus Foeniculi.Foeniculum vulgare Mill.Xiao Hui Xiang.

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Common Uses Of Fennel.

Fennel Seed Extract INCI Name Foeniculum Vulgare Extract CAS 84625-39-8 EINECS ELINCS No 283-414-6 Fructus Foeniculi Extract Foeniculum extract bitter fennel seed extract Xiao-hui-xiang Fenchel Fenkel Sweet Fennel Wild Fennel Fennel Adas landi Adas londa Anis Vert Anis Comino Finocchio Forte Kaneer Razbana LAnis La Nuit Raziyane Rezene Shamar Shbint photo picture image Used plant part:
 Fruits (usually mistermed "seeds") . Other than most of their relatives, they retain a green colour after drying. As a rule of thumb, a bright green colour indicates a good quality.
 In Italy, there is also small-scale usage of fennel pollen as an expensive and rather extravagant spice. Also known as "Spice of the Angels", fennel pollen is also produced in California as a small-scale exotic crop.
 The leaves and stalks of fennel can be eaten as a vegetable. Italian breeds with fleshy stem and leaves to be used as a vegetable are often referred to as "Florence Fennel" or "Finocchio" in English, but the name finocchio may mean any type of fennel in Italian.
 Fennel Seed Extract INCI Name Foeniculum Vulgare Extract CAS 84625-39-8 EINECS ELINCS No 283-414-6 Fructus Foeniculi Extract Foeniculum extract bitter fennel seed extract Xiao-hui-xiang Fenchel Fenkel Sweet Fennel Wild Fennel Fennel Adas landi Adas londa Anis Vert Anis Comino Finocchio Forte Kaneer Razbana LAnis La Nuit Raziyane Rezene Shamar Shbint photo picture image

 Fennel Common Uses:

 An old reliable household remedy, good for flavoring foods and medicines. The tea makes an excellent eye wash. Fennel is a thoroughly tried remedy for gas, acid stomach or dyspepsia, gout, cramps, colic, cystitis, and spasms. Ground fennel sprinkled on food will prevent gas in the stomach and bowels. For colic in children, the herb should be steeped (weak for infants) and given in small doses every half hour until the infant or child is relieved. Nursing mothers will find fennel helpful in stimulating lactation, in a warm tea. Fennel seed, ground and made into a tea is given for snake bites, fever, insect bites, dog bites, hiccoughs, flatulence, backache, toothache, obesity, blood purifier, or food poisoning. Good for jaundice when the liver is obstructed or to improve appetite. Excellent for obesity. Increases the flow of urine and increases menstrual flow. Fennel oil may be rubbed over painful joints to relieve pain or rheumatism, and may be added to gargles for hoarseness and sore throat and cough. The shoots of this herb have a laxative effect and may be consumed raw or as a tisane.

 A sweet herb used as an appetite suppressant:Promotes function of the spleen, liver, and kidneys. Relieves colon disorders, and good for the cancer patient after chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

 Cattle condiments:Fennel is also largely used for cattle condiments.

 Carminative: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.

 Chronic coughs:Syrup prepared from Fennel juice was formerly given for chronic coughs.

 Driving away fleas:It is one of the plants which is said to be disliked by fleas, and powdered Fennel has the effect of driving away fleas from kennels and stables. The plant gives off ozone most readily.

 Fennel leaves may be cooked in sauce for oily fish, chicken and egg dishes or used in salads:When cooked with salmon or mackerel, it has been claimed to help eliminate oiliness. Eaten fresh, fennel has a licorice-like flavor similar to anise. Chop the leaves and toss them into a salad, or sprinkle over grilled seafood. The seeds add vigorous flavor to breads, sausages, curries, and even apple pie. With a mixture of fennel seed and dill seed season cucumber salad and a variety of lettuce salads.

 Fennel Oil:Fennel also yields a yellow or brown dye for wool, and fennel oil is used commercially in perfumes, soaps, and liquors. Sugar-coated seeds are used as after-dinner mints in Indian restaurants.

 Fenel flavor:Fennel seeds are used whole or ground to flavor bread, cakes, pastries, soups, stews, sweet pickles, fish and sauerkraut.

 Fennel Stalk:The fennel stalk, stripped of its skin and dressed in vinegar and pepper, makes a tasty celery-like salad that is popular in the plant's native Mediterranean area. The Italians call the dish cartucci and claim it calms and aids sleep.

 Gentle cleanser and skin toner:Sweet, fragrant fennel seed powder can be used as a gentle cleanser and skin toner. It can help soothe mildly irritated skin. When used in a facial steam or facial mud, fennel allows the pores to open. Mix 2 teaspoons of fennel seed powder with a small amount of buttermilk or heavy cream and lightly heat the mixture. Use the mixture as a gentle milk cleanser. Add fennel seed powder to bath teas, milk baths, soap and body powders.

 Medicinal virtues:Fennel is good to break wind, provoke urine, ease the pains of the stone and to help break it. The leaves, or rather the seeds, boiled in water, stays the hiccough and soothes the stomach of sick and feverish persons. The seed boiled in wine is good for those that have eaten poisonous herbs or mushrooms. The seed, or roots, help to open obstructions of the liver, spleen and gall, and ease painful and windy swellings and help the yellow jaundice, the gout and cramps.

 The seed helps shortness of the breath and wheezing, by stopping the lungs. The leaves, seeds and roots are much used in drink or broth to make people lean that are too fat.

 The distilled water of the whole herb dropped into the eyes cleanses them from mists and films that hinder the sight.

 Modern uses:The seeds are mainly used as a flavouring agent in medicines and to disperse flatulence. It is an ingredient of the official compound powder of liquorice. Added to a laxative, it prevents griping. A gripe water can be made by adding eight drops of Oil of Fennel to 1 Pt (570 ml) of distilled water and shaking. The dose ranges from one to eight teaspoonfuls. Fennel tea, also Fennel FOENICULUM VULGARE for flatulence, is made by pouring 1/2 pt (300 ml) of boiling water on to one teaspoonful of the seeds and allowed to infuse. This tea will also help produce milk for nursing mothers.

 Salad:The tender stems are employed in soups in Italy, though are more frequently eaten raw as a salad. The Italians eat these peeled stems, which they call 'Cartucci' as a salad, cutting them when the plant is about to bloom and serving with a dressing of vinegar and pepper.

 Sleep Aid:John Evelyn, in his Acetaria (1680), held that the peeled stalks, soft and white, of the cultivated garden Fennel, when dressed like celery exercised a pleasant action conducive to sleep.

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last edit date:1st,June.2009.