Fourty Benefits Of Fennel For Human Health

Fennel or Foeniculum vulgare is a hardy, perennial herb with yellow flowers and feathery leaves.It is a flowering plant species in the carrot family.The inflated leaf bases are eaten as vegetable, both raw and cooked.In North america it is called anise and in italian name is finocchio.Fennel symbolizes longevity, courage, and strength.

Fennel seeds contain energy, carbohydrate, dietary fibre, fat, saturated, polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, protein, vitamin B1 (Thiamine), vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), vitamin B3 (Niacin), vitamin B6, vitamin C, calcium, iron, copper, selenium, magnesium, potassium, manganese, zinc, phosphorus, sodium, kaempferol, and quercetin.Fennel seeds compose of essential oil compounds such as anethole, limone, anisic aldehyde, pinene, myrcene, fenchone, chavicol, and cineole.

The Benefits of Fennel

• Removes harmful free radicals from the body.
• Protects from cancers.
• Protects from infection.
• Makes skin younger or antiaging.
• Maintains the oxygen balance.
• Imparts healthy skin.
• Prevents degenerative reactions.
• Improves digestion in the body.
• Relieves cough.
• Relieves bronchitis.
• Prevents airway swelling.
• Regulates growth and development sperm generation.
• Prevents upper respiratory tract infection.
• Improves dyspepsia.
• Forms red blood cells.
• Prevents bloating.
• Regulates growth and development nucleic acid synthesis.
• Treats mild spasms of the stomach.
• Decreases re-absorption in colon.
• Reduces sunburn.
• Acts as co-factor for the powerful anti-oxidant enzyme, superoxide, dimutase.
• Reduces excess hair on women (Hirsutism).
• Products red blood cells.
• Reduces pain in girls, young women witb painful menstruation (Dysmenorrhea).
• Reduces constipation in older people.
• Controls blood pressure.
• Reduces pain along the large intestine in people with swelling of the colon.
• Lowers cholesterol levels.
• Reduces colic severity in infants.
• Controls heart rate.
• Protects the colon mucusa from cancers.
• Increases bulk of food by absorbing water throughout the digestive system and easing constipation problem.
• Protects degenerative neurological disease.
• Cures joint pains.
• Increases breast milk secretion in nursing mothers.
• Treats flatulence.
• Becomes massage oil.
• Soothes inflammation and skin irritation.
• Improves the overall texture of the skin
• Treats acne.

The Side Effects of Fennel

The consumption of  fennel in excesssive dosages can cause hallucinations and seizures because compounds in fennel may be neuro-toxic in higher concentrations.So it may  exacerbate estrogen receptor-linked cancer condition like endometrial, breast, ovarian and so on. Women in pregnancy are not recommended to consume fennel in large doses due to high concentration of estrogenic compounds in fennel.