The culinarias and medicinal properties of this plant already were known in Egypt and Greece, although they were the Arabs who, in the Average Age, introduced it in Spain and Europe. Andrés of Lagoon, medical outstanding and botanical Spanish of the Renaissance, that the Castilian translated and commented works of Dioscórides, says of this plant, among other things, that "corrects the corruption and hediondez of the anhélito [ breath ], solves the inopportune ventosidades and the sour regüeldos [ acid belches ]".
Habitat: original of the countries of the Oriente.medio, although its culture has extended by the warm countries of the Mediterranean. Spain is one of the main producers of the world.
Description: cms plants from 50 to 80. of height, the family of the Umbelíferas, with fluted stem and flowers blanquecinas grouped in ramilletes (umbelas). The fruit is a made oval granite, that exhala a delicious aroma. Although it belongs to the same family who poisonous cicuta, is easy to as much distinguish it by its typical aroma as by its characteristics.
Used part: the fruits.
Properties and indications: they must to his essence mainly, anetol; that, however, isolated of the rest of the active principles of the plant and concentrated, it loses its curativas virtues, and even can be toxic (produces convulsions). To it it must that the licores of anise make two with their essence, do not have medicinal properties, and yes poisonous effects, which had so much to the alcohol as to anetol. On the contrary, the fruit of the anise, so as us offers the nature, practically is free of the risks of the essence. This must, partly, to that, in addition to anetol, it contains other substances like fenoles, málico acid, sugars and hill. These are their properties:
On the digestive apparatus: the anise is the prototype of the plants with carminativa, aperitive, tonificante action of the digestive stomach and. Clean the internal of fermentations and rottings. Form leaves from the "tisane of the four simientes", along with the caraway, hinojo and the coriander, and of which Font Quer affirms that there is no flato that resists to him.
To the children and suckling babies the infusion is to them very effective from anise in cases of gases or malolientes diarreas. It is moral convention to give infusions of anise to the suckling babies, as a refreshment.
On the respiratory apparatus: expectorante. It facilitates the elimination of the bronchial mucosities, making them more fluid. It agrees to asthmatic and bronchitic. It is recommended specially that they follow a plan to let smoke, because it acts like a true antidote of the nicotine and tars of the tobacco: clean the bronchi of irritating mucosity and facilitate the regeneration of the cells of the mucous. In addition it replaces by a fresh aroma, the scent to tobacco of the breath of which it finishes letting smoke.
On the mammary gland: galactógena action, that is to say, that increases the production of milk. For that reason the cattle dealers give to anise to the cows ewes, mixing it with I think. Peculiarly, the anise is eliminated with milk, reason why the mothers who so, when taking also benefit it their children.
Use: infusion with a teaspoon of coffee (3 grams) of fruits by water cup that are taken I warm up, up to 3 cups per day, preferably after the meals; it is possible to be sweetened with honey (to the babies the infusion with 1 is prepared to them or 2 teaspoons of coffee of dry fruits in a quarter of liter of water that can be sweetened with a sugar dessert teaspoon - the honey or is not tolerated by the suckling babies -, and it is administered to him to the boy in baby's bottle or teaspoons in the course of the day). From the essence they are taken from 1 to 5 drops, 2 o3 times to the day. In dust, up to 2 grams daily.
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