Fennel ( Foeniculum Vulgare Mill. )


      FenneL
( Foeniculum Vulgare Mill. )





Synonym:
E = officinale, All. = Anethum Foeniculum, Linn.

Family: Apiaccae (Umbelliferae)




Description:
Fennel is one of the plants that are considered the miracle drug medicine in the world.
In Indonesia, and sometimes has to be cultivated as crops or ingredients of medicinal herb. These plants can live from low altitude to 1,800 m above sea level, but will grow better in the high plains.
Originally from Europe and South Asia.
Because many benefits and many planted in Indonesia, India, Argentina, Europe and Japan. Plants are long, 50cm high - 2m, me growing family, a family usually consists of 3 - 5 stems. Little blue stem green, grooved, learner segment, perforated, when bruised fragrance. The location leaves take turns, compound with two double-fin, fin-fin narrow, needle form, the end of the base and tapering, flat edge.
Interest rates are structured as an umbrella compound interest with 6 - 40 peduncle, the mother of long peduncle 5 - 1 0 cm, the length of pedicle 2 to 5 mm, yellow crown, exit from the stem end.
Fruit oval, ribbed, long 6 - 10 mm, width 3 - 4 mm, young green after dark brown or slightly green to brown slightly yellow-brown completely. However, fruit color varies depending on the country of their origin. Ripe fruit has a distinctive aromatic smell, taste when trying as relatively kamfer. Fennel and fennel oil yield, which is the result of refinery and fennel pollen is ripe fruit and dried. There are two kinds of fennel oil, namely: the sweet and bitter. Both are used in the drug industry. Fennel is also used for flavor, or used as materials that improve the taste (corrigentia saporis) and the scent herbal medicine. Fennel is usually used together with the skin stem pulosari. Leaves can be eaten as a vegetable. I remember the seed or plant with a separate children.


Local Name:
Hades (Sunda), Adas, Adas Londo, Adas Kuning (Java); Adhas (Madura)

The disease can be treated :
Stomach pain (heartburn), flatulence, nausea, vomiting, breastfeeding slightly, diarrhea, jaundice (Jaundice), lack of appetite, cough, breathlessness (asthma), menstrual pain, cramps are not regular, rheumatism goat, difficult to sleep (insomnia), testicle down (orchidoptosis), kolik, colon thigh down to the fold (hernia inguinalis), gall stones, swelling channel sperm (epididimis), liquids Improved fruit in the bag dong (hiodrokel test), poisoning plants, fungi or drugs, improve vision.

Composition:

Fruit: ripe fruits contain aromatic smell, taste slightly sweet, spicy, warm, incoming meridian liver, kidney, spleen, and stomach.
Leaf: aromatic smell.
Oil from the fruit: fennel oil (fennel oil).

Chemicals:
Fennel containing asiri oil (Oleum Foeniculi) 1 - 6%, contains 50 - 60% anetol, more than 20% fenkon, pinen, limonen, dipenten, felandren, metilchavikol, anisaldehid, anisat acid, and 12% fat oil.
Content anetol that caused the fennel flavor and that the typical karminatif.
Bergapten roots contain.
Roots and seeds contains stigmasterin (serposterin).

Pharmacological effects and Research:
1. Active component, anisaldehida, streptomycin to increase the property TB treatment in mouse experiments.
2. Increasing the channel peristaltic digested and stimulate spending flatus (flatus).
3. Eliminate cold and sputum.
4. Fennel oil, which contains anetol, fenkon, chavicol, and that soothing anisaldehid channel digested and work like stimulation of appetite.
5. From a research on human adults, found that fennel has the effect disintegrate kidney stones.
6. In animal experiments, extracts from the leaves of fennel stew can reduce blood pressure. However, the processing of other ways do not show this property.

Utilization:

Part of use :

Ripe fruit that has been collected, and then dried.


Purpose:

Fruit useful to overcome:
- Stomach pain ( heartburn ), flatulence, in the full sense of stomach, nausea,
vomiting, diarrhea,
- Jaundice (Jaundice), lack of appetite,
- Learner sputum cough, breathlessness ( asthma ),
- Cramps: painful menstruation, menstruation is not regular,
- Milk (breastmilk) slightly,
- White eggs in the urine (proteinuria),
- Difficult to sleep ( insomnia ),
- Testicle down (orchidoptosis),
- Intestinal folding down to the thigh (hernia inguinalis),
- Swelling channel sperm (epididimis),
- Improved fluid in the bag fruit dong (hidrokel test),
- Reduce the pain due to stones and destroyed his help,
- Gout rheumatism, and
- Poisoning plants, fungi or drugs.

Leaves have overcome:
- Cough,
- Flatulence,
- Feeling thirsty, and
- Improve vision.


How to use :

Fennel fruit as much as 3 - 9 g boiled, drinking fruit or fennel course is Yes fine, and be with boiling water to drink while warm. Leaves eaten as a vegetable or boiled and drunk.
Use the outside: dried fruit course is Yes fine and used to take on the use of local, toothache, ear pain and injuries.
Fennel oil can also be used for the body of a child's colds.


Exemplary use :

1. Cough :
a. Prepare fruit and fennel pollen as much as 5 g to be 1 / 2 cup boiling water. After the cold filtered, add 1 spoon tea honey. Until evenly mixed, while drinking. Make 2 times day, to recover.

b. Prepare the saga leaves 1 / 4 handheld, hibiscus 2 bud, leaf poko 1 / 5 handheld, flower bud tembelekan 10, red onion 2 eggs, 1 tsp fennel, 1 finger pulosari, roots 1 finger ginger, brown sugar 3 finger, washed and cut necessary. Boiled with 3 cups water until the remaining half. After the cold filtered, and then drunk. Do 3 times a day, each 1 / 2 cups.

2. Breathlessness:
a. Take the fennel oil can be as many as 10 drops with 1 spoon eat hot water. Drinking while warm. Do 3 times a day, to recover.

b. Prepare the fennel 1 / 2 tsp, pulosari 1 / 4 fingers, roots kencur 2 finger, the roots of ginger 1 finger, black caraway 114 tsp, leaves poncosudo (Jasminum pubescens) 1 / 4 handheld, brown sugar 3 finger, washed and cut as necessary. The material was and then boiled with 4 1 / 2 cups water until the remaining approximately half. After the cold filtered, and ready to be drunk.
3 times a day, each 3 / 4 cups.

3. Take:
Prepare the fennel 3 / 4 tsp, coriander 3 / 4 tsp, leaves slobber 1 / 5 handheld, saga leaves 1/4 handheld, dragon scales 1 / 5 handheld, sembung leaves 1 / 4 handheld, pegagan 1 / 4 handheld, wind leaves 1 / 6 handheld, pulosari 3 / 4 finger, fragrant roots lempuyang 1 / 2 fingers, the roots of turmeric 1 / 2 fingers, cinnamon 3 / 4 finger, 3 fingers sugar, washed and cut as necessary. The material was then boiled with 4 1 / 2 cups water until the remaining half.
After cold filtered, ready to drink. 3 times a day, every time enough 3 / 4 cups.

4. Menstruation does not regularly:
Prepare the leaves and flowers srigading each masing.1 / 5 handheld, black cumin 3 / 4 tsp, fennel 1 / 2 tsp, pulosari 1 / 2 fingers, kesumba flower bud Tamil 2, 2 lemon, sugar adequate stone, washed and cut as necessary. The material was then boiled with 3 cups water until the remaining 2 1 / 4 cups. After the cold filtered, drink 3 times a day, each 3 / 4 cups.

5. Toxicity plant drugs or mushrooms:
Prepare fruit and fennel pollen as much as 5 g, and with serve half a cup of wine. Drinking while warm.

6. Gallstone:
Fruit powder and fennel can be as much as 5 g with 1 cup water heat.



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