Description

Fennel Bitter Essential Oil, Botanical Name Foeniculum Vulgare Amara, Fennel Bitter Essential Oil is an important anti-toxic oil, it has played an important part in the treatment and rehabilitation of alcoholics. It also helps in gout, arthritis, etc., to prevent the build-up of toxic wastes in the body which precede the inflammatory condition of the joints. It is a good carminative and digestive remedy and will quickly give relief from nausea, flatulence, indigestion, colic and hiccoughs.

As a diuretic and urinary tract antiseptic, Fennel has been used in the past for retention of urine, and urinary tract infections. Its also is a useful oil for the treatment of cellulites, when accumulations of toxic wastes and fluid in the subcutaneous fat produce a characteristic wrinkled appearance, often called 'orange peel skin'. Fennel tea should be taken three times a day, combined with a radical reform of eating habits, and a specialised massage to the affected area.

Fennel is one of the plants that effects on the female reproductive system, this is due to a plant hormone, a form of oestrogen, in its structure. It can help to regularise the menstrual cycle, particularly where periods are scanty and painful, with cramping pains. It has been found to reduce the symptoms of pre-menstrual stress, and it is useful at the menopause in reducing the unpleasant symptoms caused by wildly fluctuating hormone levels. Oestrogen is needed both men and women, to maintain muscle tone, elasticity of the skin and connective tissue, a healthy circulation and strong bones, so maintaining the supply can postpone some of the degenerative effects of ageing. The essential oil is distilled from the crushed seeds, and contains anethol, fenchone, estragol, camphene and phellandrene. Has a spicy, sweet, woodsy scent. The note is Top.

100% Pure Natural Purity aromatherapy therapeutic quality Essential oil, no additive, no artificial color, no animal test.

Precautions : Do not use for young children under the age of six, as one of its active principles (melanthine) can be toxic to them, although harmless to adults, in normal doses. Fennel must not be used by people with epilepsy. Avoid use in sun and if pregnant.