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Medicinal & Therapeutic Herbs
Foeniculum vulgare Mill.
Also known as: Fennel, sweet fennel, marathos, finocchio.
Fennel seed is the fruit of the fennel plant, ground, from Greek production. It is among the most classic digestive herbs: it concerns those interested in bloating and colic, and equally in cough and bronchitis. It is used just as much as a spice.
Last updated: October 2026
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Last updated: May 2026
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Send a message(+30) 2610 221354Fennel seed is the fruit of the fennel plant, ground, from Greek production. It is among the most classic digestive herbs: it concerns those interested in bloating and colic, and equally in cough and bronchitis. It is used just as much as a spice.
The fruit is characterised as carminative, antispasmodic, a digestive stimulant, expectorant and galactagogue, with additional calming and aromatic action. This character rests on the essential oil, with anethole as the main component, together with fenchone, flavonoids and hydroxycinnamic acids. Anethole relaxes the smooth muscle of the gut, which produces both the antispasmodic and the carminative effect.
Fennel seed is traditionally associated with flatulence and colic, with irritable bowel and dyspepsia, with bronchitis and cough, with fluid retention and oedema, with nausea and vomiting, and with conjunctivitis and blepharitis. It helps breastfeeding women produce more milk — a traditional use for which the EMA has insufficient safety data.
The infusion is drunk before or after meals depending on the aim. In culinary use fennel seed goes into sweets, breads, meat dishes and stews. The same infusion, cooled, is traditionally used for compresses on closed eyelids — never as a wash or as drops into the eye.
Half to one teaspoon of lightly crushed seeds — about 1.5–2.5 g — in a cup of hot water for 10 minutes, covered. Strain and drink 3 times daily. For flatulence take it before meals. Daily total up to 7.5 g. Self-treatment does not exceed two weeks of continuous use.
With the cooled, well-strained infusion, on closed eyelids, for eye inflammation. Use clean gauze each time.
Quantities are indicative, based on traditional use and published herbal literature. For prolonged use or if you are on medication, consult a health professional.
Fennel seed is considered safe in culinary amounts. In therapeutic amounts it is not recommended for children under four, nor in pregnancy and breastfeeding, as the anethole and estragole in the essential oil lack sufficient safety data for these groups — despite the traditional galactagogue use. Continuous use is limited to two weeks. Pure essential oil is not given to infants. Allergic reactions are reported in people sensitive to the carrot family, such as celery, carrot and mugwort. Persistent cough, persistent bloating or eye inflammation need medical investigation.
For flatulence and bloating, before meals. For heavy digestion, after. Either way three times a day, with the cup covered during infusion.
Because the essential oil sits inside the fruit. Light crushing releases it; whole seeds give a very weak infusion.
Only as a cool compress on closed eyelids, with clean gauze each time. Never as a wash or as drops into the eye.
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