Fennel seeds are a common condiment, and eating fennel seeds can help people strengthen the spleen and stomach, regulate qi, and dispel wind and cold. Fennel seeds are usually ripe and marketed in late summer and early fall, and people harvest the whole fennel to dry, then beat down the fruits, and after removing the impurities, it is called the pure fennel seeds that we often see.
What are the therapeutic effects of eating fennel seeds on a regular basis
Fennel seeds have a very wide range of origins, especially widespread in China's Sichuan, Shaanxi and Ningxia regions, fennel seeds have a strong flavor, often used with fennel, one of the raw materials of the five spice powder, and medicinally have a healthy appetite, rationalize the qi, dispel wind and dispel cold and other therapeutic effects. The north of China is mainly cultivated in spring and fall. The fruit is a double-hanging fruit, cylindrical, some slightly curved, slightly pointed at both ends, with a yellow-green or yellowish surface, with a yellowish-brown protruding stigmatic base remaining at the tip, and sometimes with a tiny fruiting peduncle at the base. The schizocarp is long ellipsoid, with 5 longitudinal ribs on the abaxial surface, the jointed surface is flat and wider. The cross-section is slightly pentagonal, with the dorsal four sides about equal in length. There is a special aniseed odor, slightly sweet and pungent taste. So, what are the therapeutic benefits of fennel seeds?
First of all, the main components of fennel seeds are protein, fat, dietary fiber, fennel brain, cumin ketone and fennel aldehyde, etc., and its aroma mainly comes from fennel ketone and fennel aldehyde and other aroma substances.
Secondly, fennel seeds can stimulate the gastrointestinal neurovascular, promote saliva and gastric juice secretion, and play a role in enhancing appetite and helping digestion.
Again, fennel seed also has the ability to promote intestinal peristalsis, relieve spasms, reduce pain, and have antibacterial effect.
Eating fennel seeds regularly can also help people warm the kidneys and expel cold, and harmonize the stomach. The medicinal effect of fennel seeds is mainly in the treatment of stomach cold abdominal pain, cold hernia pain, gastric cold poor, etc. Fennel pungent dispersal of warmth, good warmth in the lower and middle two jiao, especially in the liver dispersal of cold pain is long for the treatment of cold hernia to medicine. Fennel seeds inside a very high protein and fiber, these are essential nutrients, often eat fennel seeds for the human body to bring so many benefits, we can often buy some particles of uniform size, strong flavor fennel seeds to eat.