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Fennel is both a culinary and medicinal herb
Fennel is best known as a culinary herb, all parts of the plant are edible. Fennel not only improves digestion, but also can reduce bad breath and body odor that originates in the intestines. The fresh stems of fennel can be eaten much like celery, the seeds add a lovely anise flavor to fish and other dishes. Fennel also acts as an excellent digestive aid to relieve abdominal cramps, gas and bloating.
If you expect to eat a vegetable that you have trouble digesting, like cabbage, try adding fennel seeds to your recipe. The Greek name for fennel was marathon was derived from "maraino", to grow thin, reflexing the widely held belief that drinking fennel tea would have a slimming effect. Drinking a cup of fennel seed tea before eating a heavy meal can edge off of your appetite as well, and works in this regard for me personally.
The uses for fennel go far beyond the kitchen however, fennel has been used as a medicinal herb by the early Romans and Greeks.
Fennel teas are useful for chronic coughs and act as an expectorant to help clear mucus from the lungs, syrup prepared from fennel juice was formerly given for chronic coughs. Oil of fennel relieves muscular or rheumatic pains and is warming and soothing in massage oil blends. Women may also benefit from the estrogenic properties of fennel.
Fennel is one of the plants that repels fleas, and the anise like taste may be more acceptable choice for indigestion and gas in finicky dogs and cats.
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| Fennel has virtually no side effects when used as a food, or as a seed tea. The essential oil should be avoided in pregnant and nursing mothers. |
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Preparation Methods :Herbal infusion: 1 cup boiling water poured over a teaspoon of bruised seeds.
Essential Oil: Add a few drops of fennel to blends or diffusers.
Culinary: All parts of fennel are edible.
 Remedies using : Fennel
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Certified Organic Fennel, Sweet essential oil |  (Foeniculum vulgare)
Origin- Italy
Method of Cultivation- Organic
Common Method Of Extraction: Steam distilled
Parts Used: Crushed seeds
Note Classification: Middle
Aroma: Very sweet, anise-like, slightly earthy-peppery |
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Koehler's Medicinal-Plants 1887
- Flowers:Bright, yellow flowers in large, flat terminal umbels
- Plant Class:Perennial herb/vegatable 4 to 5 feet height
- Leaves:Stalks are smooth and bright green, leaves are feathery
- Fruit: Small light-colored seeds, anise flavored.
- Preferred Habitat:Dry and sunny
- Flowering Season:July and August
- Distribution:Native to the Mediterrian, cultivated worldwide
Fennel will thrive anywhere, but will produce more in a rich soil. It is easily propagated by seeds, sown early in April, and is frost resistant. Fennel plants like plenty of sun and are adapted to dry and sunny situations, like other species indigenous to the shores of the Mediterranean sea. You can direct sow, or transplant, about a foot or so apart. Fennel plants are believed to release a chemical that impairs the growth of some other plants, so it should not be grown very close to beans, tomatoes or cabbage family plants.
Harvest the leaves anytime, and the bulbs when large enough. Keep flower heads cut to insure a supply of green leaves, or let flower heads mature to harvest seeds when ripe.
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 Sweet fennel oil has a very sweet, earthy, anise-like aroma due to its primary constituent, anethol. Sweet fennel contains more anethol than bitter fennel oil. It has a balancing effect on the female reproductive system and increases the flow of body energy. |
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 In the Kitchen: All parts of fennel are edible, stalks, leaves and bulbs. Fresh leaves can be used as flavoring in soups and sauces. The bulbs can be used in Italian dishes. Fennel seeds make an excellent tea.
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 One good old fashion is not yet left off, viz . to boil fennel with fish; for it consumes that phlegmatic humour which fish most plentifully afford and annoy the body with, though few that use it know wherefore they do it; I suppose the reason of its benefit this way is, because it is an herb of Mercury, and under Virgo, and therefore bears antipathy to Pisces. Nicholas Culpeper |
 In medieval times, Fennel was employed together with St. Johns Wort and other herbs, as a preventative of witchcraft and other evil influences, being hung over doors on Midsummers Eve to warn off evil spirits | | |
 If you expect to eat a vegetable that you have trouble digesting, like cabbage, try adding fennel seeds to your recipe |
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Medicinal Healing Herbs : Properties and Uses
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Common Misspellings: medicenal
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