Fennel seeds is a highly aromatic,and flavorable herb with culinary and medicinal uses.
Fennel seeds are sometimes confused with those of anise, which are similar in taste and appearance, though smaller.
In many parts of Pakistan and India, roasted fennel seeds are consumed as mukhwas, an after-meal digestive and breath freshener.
Fennel contains anethole, which can explain some of its medical effects: it, or its polymers, act as phytoestrogens.
Fennel can be made into a syrup to treat babies with colic (formerly thought to be due to digestive upset), but long term ingestion of fennel preparations by babies is a known cause of thelarche.
Ancient Romans regarded fennel as the herb of sight.
Syrup prepared from fennel juice was formerly given for chronic coughs.
It is one of the plants which is said to be disliked by fleas, and powdered fennel has the effect of driving away fleas from kennels and stables.
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