Adas (Foeniculum vulgare Mill)

These plants come from around southern europe and asia, and grow well in the highlands at an altitude of up to around 1800 m above sea level, although they can live in the lowlands. Because the benefits of diverse, relatively rapid spread of this plant from the start region of Europe, Asia, Latin America and so many people who planted it.
The fruit of the fennel plant is ripe to have a very distinctive aroma, with a flavor similar to camphor. Who used the fennel plant by most people is the ripe fruit is then dried to become powder then processed by distillation to take its oil, fennel oil. There are two types of fennel oil seen from the taste, the sweet and bitter, and both are very much needed in the pharmaceutical industry. In addition to fruit, in some communities also exist that use leaves from the fennel plant to be cooked as a vegetable.
 
Fennel plant has long been particularly fruit many people use for treatment, because the fennel fruit useful for treating some types of disease are: abdominal pain (heartburn), vomiting, poisoning medicinal plants or fungi, improving vision, flatulence, nausea, a little milk , diarrhea, jaundice (jaundice), loss of appetite, coughing, shortness of breath (asthma), menstrual pain, testicles down (orchidoptosis), colic, intestine down to the groin (inguinal hernia), menstruation is not tertur, rheumatism goat, difficulty sleeping (insomnia), gallstones, inflammation of the sperm channels (epididymis), accumulation of fluid in the scrotum (testes hiodrokel).