Al Marsad Newspaper: Anise is one of the perennial herbs whose seeds and essential oils have been used since ancient times in the world of medicine and herbs.
And about the benefits of anise:
1. Promote the health of the digestive system: Eating anise contributes to enhancing the digestion process and softening the stomach, and boiled anise seeds have been used since ancient times after eating a heavy meal to help digestion, treat constipation, treat indigestion, get rid of flatulence and expel gas.
2. Enhance Appetite: Stimulates the secretion of digestive enzymes in the stomach, which helps in promoting digestion and enhancing appetite.
3. Promote respiratory health: It helps treat asthma and various respiratory problems. It also helps reduce congestion in the respiratory tracts and treat bronchial infections, according to the Web Medicine website.
4. General antiseptic and insect killer: Anise and anise essential oil contain substances with antiseptic properties that can be used to disinfect wounds, preventing their poisoning or infection, as well as helping to speed up the healing process.
5. Treating spasms and spasms: Eating anise in some health conditions, such as: Irritable Bowel Syndrome, epilepsy, or coughing, helps relieve spasms, cramps and the accompanying nervous pain.
6. Relieves pain and aids relaxation: Anise has analgesic and calming properties, relieves tension, anxiety, and nerve pain. It also fights depression, stress and anger.
7. Treats sleep disorders: It is a treatment for sleep problems and disorders, and an assistant in the treatment of insomnia.
8. It is useful for children: Giving anise to the child in reasonable quantities helps to calm the intestinal cramps that newborns suffer from, and helps in treating some digestive and respiratory problems, and it also acts as a gas repellent.
9. Treats menstrual problems: Anise has a similar effect to estrogen in the body. It may be useful in treating menstrual pain, relieving symptoms and spasms and contractions resulting from it.
10. Useful for Breastfeeding: Eating anise as a means to increase breast milk production in nursing mothers, as it helps to relax nursing mothers, which may enhance the breastfeeding process.