Common Name: Fennel seeds
Tincture: (1:5 @ 60%).
Note: Essential oil components combine with glucose prior to elimination -- perhaps hypoglycaemic?
Purposes: (See also Disease: Signs & Symptoms)
| obesity |
Used In: (See Formulas)
Colic Decoction #1DC138
Lower Bowel Tonic
Mother's Milk
Nursing Decoction
Sandy's Laxative Tea
Properties:
Aromatic
Contraindication(s):
Constituents:
| Essential oil | 10%. |
| Volatile oil | From 2.5 - 6% including anethone, fenchone (a bitter). |
Materia Medica: (See Materia Medica.)
| Carminatives | DIGESTIVE SYSTEM |
| Galactogogues | FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE |
| General Stimulants | ENDOCRINE SYSTEM |