Attributes & characteristics

✓ May help to combat anxiety
✓ Rich in dietary fiber
✓ Antimicrobial
✓ May help maintain healthy blood level
✓ May help respiratory and good oxygen flow
✓ May help with digestion
✓ Healthy maintenance of intestine
✓ May help good oxygen flow
✓ Rich in antioxidants
✓ May help sleep better

Fennel & its Medicinal history

Hippocrates (yes, he’s the fellow the physician’s oath is named for) suggested fennel could aid wet nurses to increase their milk supply.

One physician from the thirteenth century noted in the Book of Physicians of Myddvai “he who sees fennel and gathers it not, is not a man but a devil.” A contrary opinion led to the traditional saying that “sowing fennel is sowing sorrow” that predicted disaster to anyone giving away fennel. In the mid 15th Century, it was said of fennel…”The juice of fennel put into a mans ears, killeth the wormes therein.”

When steeped into a tea it was believed that fennel was also a treatment for losing weight. The Greeks called it Marathron which is derived from a word meaning to grow thin.

The Rich History of Fennel

Fennel is a versatile vegetable with a liquorice-like taste. Fennel originated in the Mediterranean, where wild (a.k.a., “bitter”) fennel still grows. Although exact dates are not known, it was likely first cultivated in either Greece or Italy and was used for both medicinal and culinary purposes. The ancient Greeks and Romans made extensive use of fennel, eating the seeds, blossoms, and the fronds.

Since then the fennel is now grown all over the world either for its versatile culinary essence or as for its nutritional values.

History of Fennel as an Antidote

Fennel is often used with preparing fish. In the mid 1600s, one noted physician, Nicholas Culpepper, approved of it’s use stating, “it consumes that phlegmatic humour, which fish most plentifully afford and annoy the body with, though few that use it know wherefore they do it; I suppose the reason for its benefit this way is because it is an herb of Mercury and under Virgo, and therefore bears antipathy to Pisces.”

Fennel was used as an antidote to poisons by the Romans, Chinese, and Hindus. Culpepper also believed fennel to be an effective antidote for poisonous mushrooms and snake bites. A plaster of fennel roots was a traditional treatment for the bites of mad dogs.

In a publication from the late 1880s, Alphonse Karr, for whom the dahlia was named, tried to put claims of fennel’s healing properties to rest with his announcement, “At the end of three or four hundred years, it began to be perceived that it (fennel) had never cured anyone.”

Product classification

This is a food / dietary supplement and not a substitute for a varied diet.

We recommend you do exercise, daily walks, any sports within your ability, eat natural, healthy-balanced food. Always consult your medical professionals before consuming dietary supplements if you are pregnant, breast-feeding or on medically prescribed medications or on treatment for severe medical conditions.