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Common Name | Anise |
| | Family | APIACEAE or UMBELLIFERAE Carrot Family |
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| Other Names | Aniseed |
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| Parts Used: | seeds |
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| Constituents |
choline, sugar, mucilage. The essential oil contains upto 90 percent anethol. |
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 Remedies using Anise
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Pour a cup of boiling water over 1 to 2 teaspoons of crushed seeds, steep for 15 minutes and strain.
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Aniseed, or anise is one of the earliest known herbs, mentioned in records before the birth of Christ. The Greeks, including Hippocrates, the peoples of Asia Minor, and the Romans found many uses for it. Anise has been a popular remedy here in North America for hundreds of years as carminative (relief of gas pains),colic, rheumatism, and of course in the famous licorice tasting cough drops. The therapeutic powers of anise's phytochemicals, including creosol and alpapinene, are so apparent and well-established that the herb is commonly used in preparations to break up congestion, ease coughing, and relieve gas. Aniseed can be enjoyed in herbal teas or used in baking. |
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 Carminative and pectoral. Anise enjoys considerable reputation as a medicine in coughs and pectoral affections. In hard, dry coughs where expectoration is difficult, it is of much value. It is greatly used in the form of lozenges and the seeds have also been used for smoking, to promote expectoration. The volatile oil, mixed with spirits of wine forms the liqueur Anisette, which has a beneficial action on the bronchial tubes.
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 Anise seed provides a sweet, licorice-like aroma that aids digestion and inspires exhilaration, euphoria and elation. Distilled from the ripe seed.
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Aphrodisiac *Calming * |
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| Colic | | [344] The seeds, the part most frequently used, ar tonic and stomachic, valuable for flatulence or infant colic.
(Dawson,Adele 39) | | Animal Care, Dogs | | [351] Many dogs like anise the same way cats like catnip, although the response is less spectacular. Tuck a small packet of anise seeds into your dogs blanket to make it a more attractive place to curl up and sleep
(Pleasant, Barbara ) | | Culinary | | [1169] Sweet and very aromatic, Anise liquorice-like taste compliments cookies, cakes, adds a great flavor to lasagna,aniseed is used in producing alcoholic beverages, such as Arak (Morocco) and Ouzo (Greece).
| | Congestion, ease breath | | [677] Anise essential oil can be diffused to ease the breath of a cold sufferer, or blended in massage oils to ease chest congestion. The seeds make a tasty tea that has the same properties.
| | [486] Anise is an expectorant that is also antiseptic to the mucous membranes.
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| Narcotic in large doses. Anise seeds contain anethole, a plant hormone similar to human estrogen, avoid when pregnant. The essential oil is for topical use only, use the seeds to make a herbal tea to drink. Traditionally anise was used as an herbal infusion for colic in babies, however high doses can be neurotoxic - anise should be used with caution by pregnant women and very young children |
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Anise is a dainty, white-flowered urnbelliferous annual, about 18 inches high, with secondary feather-like leaflets of bright green, hence its name (of medieval origin), Pimpinella, from dipinella, or twicepinnate, in allusion to the form of the leaves.
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 Anise is one of the herbs that was supposed to avert the evil eye. Japanese plant star anise trees on in their temples and on tombs, and use the pounded bark for incense. |
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Anise Medicinal Uses
