Medicinal Plants and Their Uses │ Fennel

Fennel is a plant that used to live in the highlands, but in the lower mainland but will also be able to live well and can thrive at higher elevations. Fennel is a plant originating from southern Europe and Asia. reproduce by seeds carried by the wind to fly. fennel with the Latin name Foeniculum vulgare Mill. has a scientific classification as follows:

scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Genus: Foeniculum
Species: F. vulgare
Binomial name: Foeniculum vulgare Mill.

Medicinal Plants and Their Uses │ Fennel

Fennel is used to take the oil to be used as a herbal medicine, medicinal plants produce oil from the fruit and seeds are used for the pharmaceutical industry in addition to medicine fennel is also used for herbs for flavoring food.

Some of the benefits of fennel is for treatment that can cure and overcome some diseases.
fruit and fennel seeds useful to address a variety of diseases, namely: abdominal pain (heartburn), nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, flatulence, jaundice (jaundice), lack of appetite, coughing, shortness of breath (asthma), menstruation: menstrual pain, irregular menstruation, breast milk (ASI) a little, white eggs in the urine (proteinuria), insomnia (insomnia), intestine down to the groin (inguinal hernia), swelling of the sperm duct (epididymis), accumulation of fluid in the scrotal sac (hydrocele testis), rheumatic gout, as well as herbs or mushroom poisoning.

while the fennel leaves useful for healing: cough, flatulence, colic, thirst, and improve eyesight.
some herbs that you can possibly use or for use at home as a home treatment by fennel:

Taking Cough Medicine Fennel

Prepare as much as 5 g fennel fruit and brewed with ½ cup water that has been boiled, brewed as a tea. let stand until cool and then filtered to that taste better and add properties to add 1 teaspoon of honey and stir until dissolved drink, you can take it two times a day, doing this way until healed.

Treatment for Shortness of Breath

For the treatment of shortness of breath taking fennel, you can use the oil that has been extracted in advance, you bida get fennel oil in traditional drug stores, how to treat shortness of breath is the oil drops as much as 10 drops mixed with 1 tablespoon hot water, immediately drink while warm. do 3 times a day.

For the Treatment of Gallstones

You can use fennel fruit powder or oil, if you use fennel pollen take 5 grams of powdered fennel or anise oil 5 drops brewed with 1 cup of warm water and you drink while warm.