Fennel (Adas) Herbal

(Foeniculum vulgare Mill )

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

Familia : Apiaccae ( Umbelliferae)

Description :
Fennel is one of ninth medical plant assumed by miracle in Anglo-Saxon. In Indonesia has been conducting and sometime as plant flavour or as dill. This plant can live by lowland until height of 1800 m above sea level, but will grow is better at plateau. The original germinal from South Europe and Asian, because of its benefit, then many planted in Indonesia, India, Argentina, Eropa, and Japan.

Characteristic:
Sodium long lived, height 50 cm - 2 m, grows clump. One clumps usually is consisted of 3 - 5 bar. Green bar rather blue, grooved, having internode, holey, aroma fragrant if in contuses. Situation of Leaf is having interlude, double fin compound two with narrow: tight fins, form of needle, tip and sharp-pointed jetty, plane edge, having spathe white colour, spathe is having membrane with it the top is in the form of hat.

Inflorescence lapped over as compound umbrella interest with 6 - 40 interest hilts, interest hilt mother length 5 - 1 0 cm, interest hilt length 2 - 5 mm, rust colored crown, exit from tip of bar. Fruit of oblong, ribbs, length 6 - 10 mm, wide 3 - 4 mm, still be young become green after rather green cacao stripper or rather yellow cacao until fully cacao.

But, this different fruit colour depended country of origin. Ripe fruit has aromatic typical aroma, if tasted the taste is relative like camphor. Fennel yields fennel oil, which is distillation bacillus of powder fruit of ripe fennel and drought.
There is two kinds of fennel oil, bitter and sweet. Both, applied in drugs industry. Fennel also used for flavour, or applied as component of improve;repairing taste ( corrigentia saporis) and makes fragrance drug ingredient. Usually fennel is applied together with bar skin pulosari.

Leaf can be eaten as vegetable. Propagation with seed or by dissociating child of crop.

Composition :
Character chemical and pharmacology effect of fruit :

Ripe fruit contained aromatic aroma, taste is rather beloveds, hot, warmness, liver meridian admission, kidney, spleen, and stomach.

Leaf : smells aromatic of oil from fruit : fennel oil ( fennel oil).

CHEMISTRY CONTENT : Oleaginous fennel of volatile ( Oleum Foeniculi) 1 - 6%, contains 50 - 60% anetol, more or less 20% fenkon, pinen, limonen, dipenten, felandren, metilchavikol, anisaldehid, anisic acid, and 12% fixed oil.

Content anetol causing fennel to release aroma which is typical and having special quality carminative. Root contains gap. Root and seed contains stigmasterin ( serposterin). Effect Farmakologis and survey:

1. Active component, anisaldehida, increases special quality streptomycin for therapy of tuberculosis at attempt mouse.

2. Increases gastrointestinal peristaltik and stimulates flatus.

3. Eliminates chilling and phlegm.

4. Fennel oil containing anetol, fenkon, chavicol, and anisaldehid is having special quality cools alimentary tract and works looks like lust incentive to eat.

5. Out of one researchs at adult man, diternukan that fennel has effect to break calculus.

6. At animal attempt, extract from decoction of fennel leaf can reduce blood pressure. But, processing of other way doesn't show this special quality.

Other name :
Hades ( Sunda area West Java, Indonesia)

Adas, Fennel londa, adas landi ( Java, Indonesia)

Adhas ( Madura, Indonesia),

Adas ( Bali, Indonesia)

Wala Wunga ( Sumba, Indonesia)

Das Pedas ( Aceh, Indonesia)

Adeh, Manih ( Minangkabau, Indonesia)

Paapang, Paampas ( Menado, Indonesia)

Adasa, rempasu ( Makasar, Indonesia)

adase ( Bugis, Indonesia)

Adas, Adas Pedas( Malay)

Aniseed ( Malay)

Popoas ( Alfuru)

Denggu - Denggu ( Gorontalo)

Papaato ( Buol)

Porotomo ( Baree)

Kumpasi ( Sangir Talaud)

Hsiao hui ( China)

Phong Karee, Mellet Karee ( Thailand)

Barisaunf, Madhurika ( India/Pakista)

Fennel, Commaon Fennel, Sweet Fennel, Fenkel, Spigel ( English Lang)

PART APPLIED :
Ripe fruit ( Xiaohuixiang, hui-hsiang). Fruit which has cooked collected, then is put to the sun until drought.

USEFULNESS:

Useful fruit to overcome :
stomachache ( stomachache), flatulent stomach, full taste in bouncing up, nausea, puking, diarrhoea, yellows pain ( jaundice), less appetite, coughs expectorating, asphyxia ( asthma), menstruation: menstruation pain in bone, menstruation is not regular, mother's milk water, protein in urine ( proteinuria), sleepless ( insomnia), testicle downwards ( orchidoptosis), intestine go down to popliteal ( hernia inguinalis), spermaduct swelling (epididimis), accumulation of dilution in poke of penis ( hidrokel testis), lessens pain taste as result of stone and assists breaks it, gout rheumatism, and poisoned of medical plant or mushroom.

Leaf is having special quality overcomes :
coughsflatulent stomach koilkthirsty tasteincreases eyesight.

WAY OF USAGE :
Fruit of fennel counted 3 - 9 gram is braised, drinks or fruit of fennel milled to be smooth, then is poured boiling water into with water to boil to be drinked at the time warmness. Leaf eaten as vegetable or braised, then is drinked.

External usage:

dry fruit milled to be smooth then applied for local usage at sprue, toothache, earache and hurt.
Fennel oil also applicable to rub catching a cold chlid body.

Example for use in Indonesia :

1. Coughs
a. Prepares powder fruit of fennel counted 5 gram disedub with 1/2
water cup boils. After chilling filtered, adds 1 spoon
honey tea. Scrambled until flattening, drinks at the same time. Does 2 times
one day, until recovering.

b. Prepares saga leaf 1/4 grasping

shoe blossom 2 buds

Poko leaf 1/5 grasping

interest tembelekan 10 buds
shallot 2 item

fennel 1 teaspoon

pulosari 1 finger, rhizome
ginger 1 finger

demerara 3 finger

cleaned and cut to pieces at sufficiently.

Braises with 3 clean water glass until half of remaining. After chilling filtered, then is drinked. Does 3 times one day, each 1/2 glasses.

2. Breathless
a. Takes fennel oil 10 drips poured boiling water into with 1 spoon
eats temperature water. Drinks whilst warmness. Does 3 times one day,
until recovering.

b. Prepares fennel 1/2 teaspoons, pulosari ¼ finger, rirnpang koempheria galanga 2
finger, rirnpang temulawak 1 finger, black dill 114 teaspoons, leaf
poncosudo ( Jasminum pubescens) 1/4 grasping, demerara
3 finger, cleaned and cut to pieces at sufficiently. The materials
then is braised with 4 1/2 clean water glasses until remaining approximately
as of its(the pari pasu. After chilling filtered, and ready for drinked.
One day 3 times, each 3/4 glasses.

3. Sprue
Prepares fennel 3/4 teaspoons, coriander 3/4 teaspoons, iler leaf
1/5 grasping, saga leaf 1/4 grasping, fragon scale 1/5 grasping,
sembung leaf 1/4 grasping, gotu kola of 1/4 grasping, kentut leaf
1/6 grasping, pulosari 3/4 fingers, rhizome lempuyang fragrant 1/2 fingers,
turmeric rhizome ½ finger, cinnamon ¾ finger, demerara 3 finger, cleaned
and cut to pieces at sufficiently.

The material then is braised with 4 1/2 clean water glasses until remaining as half of remaining. After cool is filtered, ready for drinked. One day 3 times, each time enough 3/4 glasses.

4. Menstruation is not regular
Prepares leaf and interest srigading each 1/5 grasps,
black jinten 3/4 teaspoons, fennel 1/2 teaspoons, pulosari 1/2 fingers,
interest kesumba rivets 2 buds, lime 2 fruit, lump sugar
equal to chicken's egg, cleaned then is cut to pieces at sufficiently.

The material then is braised with 3 clean water glass until remains 2 1/4 glasses.

After chilling filtered, minurn 3 times one day, each 3/4 glasses.

Poisoned of medical plant or mushroom
Prepares powder fruit of fennel counted 5 gram, then poured boiling water into with
semi pageant cup. Drinks whilst warmness.

5. Gallstone
Powder fruit of fennel counted 5 gram poured boiling water into with 1 water cup
temperature.