? We are no strangers when it comes to fennel, and today we are talking about the young leafy part of fennel, fennel seedling. Fennel seedlings can be eaten as a vegetable, sauteed, or stuffed. Fennel as a flavor, there are many benefits for our body's, so what are the effects and functions of fennel seedling?

? 1. Regulate menstruation

? Fennel is rich in protein, dietary fiber, fat and other nutrients, but also because it contains a unique fennel brain, cumin ketone, fennel aldehyde, etc., can play the role of dredging blood, smooth qi and warm stomach, warm kidneys to disperse the cold, dredge the liver and expel cold and pain. Therefore, girls during menstruation, if they feel poor qi and blood, abdominal cold and menstrual cramps, loss of appetite, etc., they can take some cumin, which can be used to regulate menstruation and reduce the pain of crashing, female dysmenorrhea, lower abdominal cramping pain and other pain during menstruation that occurs due to the cold condensation of the liver meridian. It is also commonly used clinically with herbs such as yanhuisuo, lychee kernel, orange kernel, and aromatic herbs to improve its efficacy.

? 2. Can be used as a spice

? Can be used as a spice, commonly used in meat, seafood and roasted cakes and other pasta cooking. In Chinese medicine, it is used as medicine, warm in nature, pungent in flavor, and belongs to the liver, kidney, spleen and stomach meridians. Functions: warming the liver and kidney, warming stomach qi, dispersing congestion, dispersing cold, relieving pain, regulating qi and harmonizing the stomach. It is used for cold hernia and abdominal pain, testicular deviation, women's dysmenorrhea, cold pain in the abdomen, epigastric distension and pain, and vomiting and diarrhea with little food.

? 3. Cumin regulating stomach problems

? Dietary restraint, over-eating cold or cold stomach, and the spleen and kidney fire is not enough, then your intestines and stomach is cold, after eating large fish and meat, it is difficult to digest, then add a little cumin can add some firewood to the spleen and kidneys, so that the fire burns a little stronger, which is the great tonic kidney yang of the fennel, but to be able to warm up the stomach, regulating the fundamental reason for stomach disease. General Chinese medicine in the prescription of stomach formula, cumin's more commonly used, this is because the fennel oil contained in fennel can stimulate the gastrointestinal neurovascular, promote the secretion of digestive juices, increase gastrointestinal peristalsis, to eliminate the accumulation of gases, there is a stomach, the effect of qi, suitable for the spleen and stomach cold people to eat. If you have some pain in the stomach, you can add some fennel when cooking, or add fennel to the rice porridge.