Treating Sentinel Pile

parsley family, Apiaceae: Foeniculum vulgare var dulce (Fennel sweet )


sweet fennel, Foeniculum vulgare var dulce, belongs to the parsley family (Apiaceae). This perennial plant is one of the spices and medicinal plants, but there is also a Subspez. in vegetable crops.

of up to 1.5 m tall border drug-fennel prefers warm, nutrient-rich, chalky, dry soil.
Its yellow flowers can form up to 15 cm cones that begin in the first year from July to October and the second year to flower as early as June.

then develop gray-green to brownish-green fruit called gap, from 4 - 10 mm length.

For growing dry and warm late summer and autumn months are important in order to obtain a high compound contents.

2-6% essential oil containing the fruit. Fenchone, estragole and trans-anethole, the main ingredients.

Max 4 - 5 years, then made a crop rotation, which should be outside the Umbelliferae.

lung (spasmolytic / expektorativ), kidneys (diuretic / kidney stones) and intestine (contractile, entblähend, ...) are main areas of the essential oil - Foeniculum vulgare var dulce.

Furthermore one has detected an estrogen-like effect (anethole), in the phase of menopause and milk production have a positive effect.

The antimicrobial effect is 13 times stronger than phenol.

says an old tradition: fennel seeds on the path of the new couples to scatter to prepare them to happiness.

There are 3 subspecies:
- spicy or bitter fennel (Foeniculum vulgare var dulce)
- vegetable fennel (Foeniculum vulgare var azoricum)
- Bitter fennel (Foeniculum vulgare var vulgare) - contains up to 70% and 15% anethole fenchone

anethole acts secretolytic / spasmolytic
fenchone is bitter, smells kampherartig (typical fennel smell) and has potent inhibitory on bacteria and fungi

tea: max. 7 g of drug per day - equivalent to about 3 - 5 cups of tea (estragole) - pay attention to when buying whole fruits)

hydrosol: pH 4.0 - 4.1, lifetime of 1 / 2 up to 1 year
- good experience, there is the case of oral administration of Fenchelhydrolat in flatulence:
- Fenchelhydrolat 5 ml in 100 ml water - drink slowly (hydrosols without alcohol)

detailed ingredient information and KI see references Eliane Zimmermann .