Foeniculum Vulgare
(Foeniculum vulgare Mill.)

Tribe: Apiaceae (Umbelliferae)
Crude Name: Fructus Foeniculli

Description
Foeniculum vulgare one of the medicinal plants that are considered bermukjizat in Anglo-Saxon. In Indonesia have been cultivated and sometimes as herbs or medicinal plants. This plant can live in the lowland until height of 1800 m above sea level, but will grow better in the highlands. Originally from Southern Europe and Asia, for its benefits later in the planting of Indonesia, India, Argentina, Europe, and Japan.

Plants perennial, height 50 cm -2 m, growing sod. One family usually consists of 3-5 stems. Bluish green stems, grooved, segmented, hollow, smells fragrant when bruised. Location of the leaves alternate, compound pinnate, with double two narrow fins, the shape of the needle, the tip and base of the pointy, flat edge. Flowers are arranged as a compound with 6-40 flowers umbrella pedicle, pedicle length mother of 5-10 cm, peduncle 2-5 mm long, yellow crown out of the tip of the rod. Fruit oval, ribbed, 6-10 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, green young old chocolate. Ripe fruit has a distinctive aromatic smell, taste when tasted like kamfer relative.

Nature and Usefulness
Ripe fruits contain an aromatic smell, taste slightly sweet, spicy, warm, meridian entered the liver, kidney, spleen, and stomach. Eliminating nutritious cold, launched "chi", pain relievers (analgesics), gastric healthy, increase appetite (stomakik), sputum facilitator, facilitator fart, and stimulates production of milk (laktagoga).
Leaves aromatic smells and efficacious as a stimulant, urinary facilitator, laktagoga, stomakik, and explain the vision.
Nutritious herb as an anti-emetic. Roots as laxatives and diuretics. Oil from plants being efficacious as a stimulant, carmintive, antibacterial, and anthelmintic.

Chemical content
This plant contains essential oil (oleum Foeniculi) 1-6%, containing 50-60% anetol, approximately 20% fenkon, pinen, limonene, dipenten, felandren, metilchavikol, anisaldehid, anisat acid, and 12% fatty oil. Anetol content which causes the typical smell of fennel and remove carmintive efficacious. The roots contain bergapten. Roots and seeds contain stigmasterin (serposterin).

Portion used
Ripe fruit (Xiaohuixiang, hui-shiang). Ripe fruit that has been collected, then dried in the sun to dry.

How to use
Fruit of 3-9 g of boiling water, fruit drinks or soft ground, then poured boiling water, then drink while warm. Leaves cooked as vegetables or boiled and then drunk.
External use, finely milled and dried fruits are used for local consumption at the canker sores, toothache, ear pain and injury.
These plant oils can also be used to rub the child's body into the wind.

Note
• Treatment of hernia remains with the mode of operation, ie closing the holes existing channels. This plant is only temporary increase intestinal folded on the thigh down.
• Avoid using large doses.
• Use this herb sometimes cause frequent farts and burps,
• The fruit is effective to repel insects (insect repellent).