Fennel is one of the herbs that are considered efficacious in the Anglo-Saxon. In Indonesia, has been cultivated as a spice and medicinal tanarnan. Turnbuhan can live from the plains to a height of 1,800 m above sea level. But will grow better in the highlands. Originally from Southern Europe and Asia, and for its benefits then widely planted in Indonesia, India, Argentina, Europe, and Japan. Having a young fruit is green after dark brown slightly green or brown slightly yellow-brown completely. Typical aromatic ripe fruit smells, when sampled tastes like camphor. Fennel and fennel oil yield, which is the result of refined fruit and fennel pollen is ripe and dry. There are two kinds of fennel oil, bitter and sweet. Both are used in the pharmaceutical industry. Fennel is also used for flavor, or used as materials that improve the taste (corrigentia saporis) and the scent of medicinal herbs. Usually, fennel is used in conjunction with pulosari bark. Leaves can be eaten as a vegetable. Propagation by seed or by separating the children plant.
Fennel fruit is ripe containing aromatic smell, somewhat sweet, spicy, warm, into the liver meridian, kidney, spleen, and stomach. The leaves also smell the aromatic oils of fruit: fennel oil (fennel oil).
chemical constituents: Fennel contains volatile oil (oleum Foeniculi) 1-6%, 50-60% anetol, approximately 20% fenkon, limonene, pinen, dipenten, anisaldehid, metilchavikol, felandren, anisat acid, and 12% fatty oil. Gynecology anetol cause the distinctive aroma of fennel issue which merit carminative. Roots and seeds contain stigmasterin (serposterin).
Efficacy of fennel:
1. Active Components anisaldehida improve efficacy streptomycin for tuberculosis treatment in mice.
2. Improving the gastrointestinal tract and stimulate peristalsis expenditure fart (flatus).
3. Eliminate cold and phlegm.
4. Fennel oil containing anetol (substance phytoestrogen), fenkon, chavicol, and efficacious anisaldehid soothing the digestive tract and works like a stimulant appetite.
5. From an adult human studies, found that fennel has the effect to destroy kidney stones.
6. In animal experiments, the extract of fennel leaf decoction can lower blood pressure. However, other ways of processing do not show these properties.
7. Fennel efficacious as anti-inflammatory, carminative, diuretic, anti-microbial.
8. Fennel is a mild antiparasitic and leaves can be used to treat indigestion, relieve toothache, and the essential oil fraction can be used to treat lice and scabies disease
9. Contain components that are similar liquorice, aniseed is sweet and has a distinctive fragrance, used to make snacks that are high in sugar such as the following: Aniseed ball (United Kingdom), Aniseed wheels (New Zealand), pizzelle ( Italy), pfeffernusse (Germany), and Knott (Norway). Anise is also used to make beverages Mexico "atole de anis" or champurrado the same with hot chocolate, drink Turkish raki (alcoholic beverages), Ouzo Greek, Sambuca Italy, absinthe spirit, penchant Arabs Arak, some Root beer such as Virgil's Root Beer in the United States, as a laxative food in India. Also used to make bread dough, when preparing dessert from Peru "Picarones".
10. In aromatherapy, fennel essential oil is used to treat colds and flu.
11. According to Pliny the Elder, fennel is used to treat sleeplessness, chewed with the Alexanders and a little honey in the morning to freshen breath, and when mixed with wine can cure scorpion stings (NH 20.72).
12. In the Mediterranean, fennel is used to make alcoholic beverages, for example, Arak (Lebanon), Ouzo (Greece) and raki in Turkey.
13. In Thailand, fennel is used to give flavor to the tea.
14. In Pakistan, people make a cup of hot tea by pouring a tablespoon of fennel with boiling water.
15. Factory manufacture of steam locomotives in the United Kingdom include fennel oil capsules into the white metal bearings, so that a different aroma to give a warning when experiencing excessive heat. (Suaramedia.com)
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