Foeniculum vulgare L. is the mature fruit of Foeniculum vulgare L., and after laying the fruit in autumn, impurities are removed for medicinal use. Fennel is pungent and warm, and belongs to liver, kidney, spleen and stomach meridians. It has the effects of dispelling cold, relieving pain, regulating qi and regulating stomach. Foeniculum vulgare can dispel cold, enter liver and kidney, warm kidney and liver, promote qi circulation and relieve pain, which is an important medicine for clinical treatment of cold hernia and abdominal pain. The pungent and warm fennel can warm the middle energizer, dispel cold and relieve pain, and regulate the qi of spleen and stomach to stimulate appetite and stop vomiting, which has a good curative effect on the syndrome of stagnation of qi in middle energizer and deficiency-cold gastropathy.
1, dispelling cold and relieving pain
It has a good curative effect on uterus deficiency and cold, lumbago and back cold pain, abdominal distension, loose stool and hernia caused by cold and dampness and qi stagnation, and is often combined with cinnamon, Aquilaria Resinatum and Linderae in clinic. To treat dysmenorrhea caused by women's aversion to wind and cold, wading in the rain and stagnation of qi, fennel15g powder can be taken three days before menstruation, and it can be taken continuously for three days, which can play the roles of warming meridians, dispelling cold, promoting qi circulation and relieving pain.
2, regulating qi and stomach
In case of stomach cold, vomiting, loss of appetite and epigastric pain, it can be combined with dried ginger and radix aucklandiae. Patients with chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer who show symptoms such as epigastric cold pain, aversion to temperature and cold limbs can be pounded with fennel100g and ginger 200g, and then fried with yellow powder, and treated with millet soup10g every morning and evening.
Stir-fry fennel, put it in a cloth bag and iron the epigastrium or lower abdomen at moderate temperature, which has good analgesic effect on abdominal pain and dysmenorrhea caused by the above stomach pain or cold coagulation. Modern medical research shows that the mechanism of fennel in treating gastrointestinal diseases lies in its rich fennel oil in cells, which can stimulate gastrointestinal peristalsis, help eliminate gas and relieve pain, so it is often used as a safe and efficient anti-flatulence drug in clinic.
3. Warming kidney and shrinking urine
It can be used for enuresis due to deficiency of kidney yang, nocturnal enuresis or nocturnal enuresis during sleep, soreness and cold pain in waist and knees caused by congenital deficiency or kidney injury caused by house strain or senile renal failure. It can be used with Alpinia Oxyphylla, Ootheca Mantidis and Rubus.
Nourishing and warming stomach
In general, when Chinese medicine practitioners prescribe stomach-nourishing prescriptions, the amount of fennel is also more than that of anise. This is because fennel oil contained in fennel can also stimulate gastrointestinal nerve and blood vessels, promote the secretion of digestive juice, increase gastrointestinal peristalsis, eliminate accumulated gas, have the effects of invigorating stomach and promoting qi circulation, and are suitable for people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold. If you have some stomachache (which is very common in winter), you can add fennel in cooking or add fennel to rice porridge.