FENNEL RELIEVES ACUTE ABDOMINAL PAIN

FOENICULUM VULGARE MILL.

Fennel is a biennial. It has a thick rootstocks. The steams are stout, grow up o 1meter high, are bright green, smooth, and much branched, and the leaves are divided into very fine segments. The flowers are yellow, produced in terminal umbels. The fruit consist of two joined carpels, oblong, with ribs. It has a pleasant odour.

Medicinal use:

• Promotes the flow of urine.
• Expels flatulence and griping pains from the stomach and bowels.
• Helps in digestion.
• To increase the secretion of milk in nursing mothers.
• As a stimulant.
• Promotes the removal of mucous secretions from the bronchial tubes.
• Strengthens and gives tone to the stomach.
• Prevents or cure spasms.
• For intestinal problems.
• Relieves acute abdominal pain.
• Against hookworms.

How to use:

• The consumption of the seeds takes care of all the alignments under Medicinal use.
• In aphtha or small ulcers of the mouth the seed are chewed, and the juice slowly swallowed.
• In decoction, the tea of the seeds regulates menstrual problems.
• The oil of the seeds is used against hookworms in doses of 3.5ml.

Parts use:
The seeds.