Carminative fennel

Peppermint, cardamom and fennel used as carminative and flavouring agent. 

Fennel Foeniculum vulgare (Umbelliferae/ Apiaceae) ripe fruit 2-5 anethole (50-70) fenchone (10-20) estragole (3-20) flavour, carminative, aromatherapy... 

FENNEL, FomicuU fructus and aetheroleum The drug exerts a carminative effect and is also dealt with in section R05C, Expectorants. 

Like Aniseed, Fennel has a secretolytic, spasmolytic, carminative and antiseptic effect with the same use as anise. 

Dalb s Carminative. Take oils of caraway, fennel, and peppermint, each 10 drops rub them up with 10 ounces white 8Ug and 5 ounces carbonate or lump magnesia, then add 1 drachms sal-tartar and 2 ounces laudanum. Mix with pints of wa-... 

This is often attended by the ernctation of gas. Snbstances that prodnce these effects are known as carminatives. They are nsed to relieve intestinal flatnlence and distention, to lessen the spasms that canse colic, and as stimulants to the appetite. Those nsed for this pnrpose include camphor, cinnamon, fennel, peppermint, spearmint, wintergreen, bitter almond, and anise. 

Fennel and its volatile oil have carminative and stimulant properties. 

Fennel and sweet fennel oil are used as a carminative or flavoring agent in certain laxative preparations. 

Traditional Medicine. Fennel fruits and oil are reportedly used as a stomachic and as a carminative in treating flatulence and other stomach troubles, as well as for catarrhs of the upper respiratory tract. ... 

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