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Common Name: ANISE
Scientific Name: Pimpinella anisum
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Description:
  • Annual
  • Full sun
Culinary Uses:
  • Liquorise flavour.
  • Salad, soup, fish, sauces, bread, cakes, biscuits, confectionary.
  • Pinch of anise seed with cabbage and beans
Parts Used:
  • Use leaves, flowers, seed
Medicinal Uses. It is said that:
  • Build-in feel-good factor - stress, good for children writing exams
  • Boost concentration, clear thinking
  • Tight chest pains, distressed breathing, tension head ache
  • Digestive: colic, diarrhoea, nausea, heartburn, hiccups
  • Help assimilation of food
  • Asthma, bronchial spasm, coughs
  • Expectorant - dry up phlegm
  • Insomnia, period pain, tooth ache
  • Seed sweeten breath, hiccups
  • Traditionally used by Lactating mothers to increase milk production and prevent babies from getting colic
Other Uses:
  • Companion planting: Plant between spinach, lettuce and tomatoes

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