calendula

FENNEL

Latin Name: Foeniculum vulgare
Family: Umbelliferae
Height: 1.5m

Sweet fennel is a valuable food herb for rabbits, guinea pigs and chinchillas. Fennel is available in many supermarkets and makes an excellent vegetable to feed to lactating does and sows as it increases milk production.

Constituents: Volatile oil, flavanoids, coumarin.

Actions: Stimulates and soothes the stomach, relieves wind, galactagogue.

Herbs and Wild Plants
Constituents and Actions
Agrimony | Avens | Borage | Calendula | Cats Claw | Celery | Chanca Piedra | Chickweed | Chicory | Cleavers | Coltsfoot | Comfrey | Cornsilk | Dandelion | Echinacea | Elder Flower | Fennel | Fenugreek | Garlic | Goats Rue | Golden Rod | Groundsel | Inula | Lemon Balm | Maca | Mallow | Marshmallow | Meadowsweet | Melilot | Milk Thistle | Mouse Ear | Nettles | Parsley | Plantain | Raspberry Leaf | Red Clover | Rosehip | Shepherds Purse | Suma | Valerian | Yarrow

Herb uses, myths and herb/drug interactions
From Harvard Medical School's Consumer Health Information