SOLD AS: Capsules, tincture, dried seeds, bulk tea.
WEIGHT LOSS PILL TYPE: Fennel is an Appetite suppressant. Its original Greek name was marathron from maraino, meaning “to grow thin.” In Arabian medicine it is used as a diuretic-Fennel is native to the Mediterranean but is now extensively harvested.
BACKGROUND/RESEARCH: The need for fennel as a weight-loss herb is essentially anecdotal. It has been used as an Appetite suppressant since medieval times. A custom among people of later centuries was to eat the seeds during Lent to curb hunger. The seeds, leaves, and roots were made into tea and used by those “that are grown fat, to abate their unwieldiness and lead them to grow more gaunt and lank” in accordance with seventeenth-century British herbalist Nicholas Culpepper. Today fennel is often employed to help digestion and to relieve diarrhea.
WHAT IS IT SUPPOSED TO DO: Fennel seeds contain 4 to 6 percent essential oils, 16 to 20 percent protein, and various vitamins, minerals, and sugars. It is assumed these ingredients assist with suppression of appetite, yet precisely how it works is unidentified.
HOW TO TAKE IT: Specialists advise that fennel be taken between meals. To create an infusion, they recommend placing 1 to 3 g crushed or ground seeds in 8 ounces boiling water, steeping them for 15 minutes, and consuming 2 to 3 cups daily. To use the tincture, experts say to add 5 to 15 ml to water and to take this dosage 2 to 3 times daily.
SIDE EFFECTS: Fennel is normally thought to be safe. In unusual cases it may cause rash.
PRECAUTIONS: Don’t take on fennel if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or for those who have a chronic gastrointestinal disease, such as an ulcer, reflux esophagitis, colitis, or diverticulitis. Fennel needs to be avoided if you have a medical history of alcoholism; liver disease; estrogen-dependent breast tumors; or abnormal blood clotting. In animal studies, fennel has made worse liver damage, but there isn’t any scientific testing on people of this effect.
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