The birthday flower of Libra-fennel

Fennel, also known as Xiaohuaixiang, also known as coriander, cumin, fennel, millet (Sichuan, Guizhou), muddy incense, the stems and tender leaves of cumin can be used as vegetables, seasoning fennel, dried and ripe fruit of plant fennel.

Fennel was first found in Tang Materia Medica. Su Song said that people in the north call it fennel, and the sound is similar to Huaixiang. Tao Hongjing said: boil smelly meat, under a little, no odor, smelly sauce into the end also fragrant, so it is called fennel. Li Shizhen said that slang and vulgarity are often chewed in the name of incense, or in this way. The fruit (cumin) is used as spice and medicine, and the root, leaf and whole grass can also be used as medicine.

Fennel

Flower arrangement:

Fennel is a good loose flower arrangement, with yellow flowers in summer and compound umbels. It is suitable to fill in the blanks between the lumps of flowers to increase the sense of hierarchy.

Fancy language: both talent and color. Suitable match: rose, cornflower, blue mallow, rose fruit, hibiscus flower, lemon grass.

Spice plants:

Cumin is an important spice plant. Both leaves and fruits have special aroma. After the tender leaves are washed, cut and mix with salt, monosodium glutamate, sesame oil and other seasonings, the taste is fragrant and can promote appetite. It can also be used as dumpling or steamed stuffed bun filling. The fruit is often used as spice, used in wine and candy, or added to fish, meat and sauce, which can remove odor and increase appetite; ground powder can be used to make five-spice powder, used for pasta and other seasoning. Fennel can also be used in medicinal diet, such as fennel fried waist flower can tonify the kidney and relieve pain; stewed beef with fennel can warm the liver and stomach, promote qi and relieve pain. Fennel porridge can dispel cold and relieve pain. Fennel ginger sugar soup can treat colds, colic, stomachache and so on.

Fennel

Medicinal plants:

Cumin is an important medicinal plant, and its fruit is an important traditional Chinese medicine. It tastes pungent and warm, and has the effect of relieving pain, invigorating stomach and dispelling cold. Main treatment of stomach cold pain, lower abdominal cold pain, dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain, colic, testicular hydrocele, schistosomiasis and so on.

Daily necessities:

Cumin mainly contains volatile oil and other components, including anisole, anisone, limonene, anisaldehyde and so on. The essential oils extracted from fennel fruits and stems and leaves have a wide range of uses, such as toothpaste, tooth powder, soap, perfume, cosmetics and so on. Fennel essential oil has good antiseptic effect and can be used in pickled food. A kind of fennel wine is popular in bars in countries such as North Africa and Greece along the Mediterranean coast, which contains fennel essential oil and has a rich and unique flavor. when you drink it with water or ice, the transparent wine becomes cloudy within 1 second and becomes a milky suspension wine. Herbal tea made of cumin has the effect of warming the kidney and dispelling cold and regulating stomach qi. It also has a certain effect on abdominal distension caused by overeating and dysmenorrhea in women.

Cut tobacco:

Cut tobacco made from cumin stems and leaves is expected to become a new type of cigarette substitute because of its no nicotine content, low tar content, little harm to human body, flammability similar to tobacco leaf and rich flavor.

Edible value:

There is also a kind of bulb fennel that can be eaten, which is also known as heading fennel or sweet fennel, which is a variety of fennel and is similar to fennel. Its edible part is a thick fleshy bulb formed by clasping the base of the leaf sheath, which has a unique aroma and sweetness. it can be salad, stir-fried, make soup, pickled, and can also be made into stuffed dumplings or steamed buns. As for star anise or star anise, it refers to the fruit of star anise, a plant of Magnoliaceae.

Fennel

Libra is the most elegant and friendliest of the 12 constellations. Those who are blessed by this kind of flower not only have excellent appearance, but also have enviable intelligence. There are so many members of the opposite sex who want to win your favor and get your heart. Only affected by fennel, in the face of adversity will become very vulnerable, so a lovelorn will be very depressed, to pay attention!