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sweet fennel

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sweet fennel
said to remedy blindness and cataracts. [Herb Symbolism; Flora Symbolica, 164]
See : Healing


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The sweet fennel and curry-infused sauce it was cooked in appealed to me and didn't disappoint.
Besides the grand wormwood's principle flavoring, you will often find star anise, green anise, aniseed, sweet fennel and mint, and sometimes eucalyptus, sage (salvia), lemon balsam, hyssop, basil, tarragon, meadow sweet, badiane, vervain and stinging netles.
Fennel oil extracted from sweet fennel is made up of 80% to 90% trans-anetholes, 1 % to 10% fenchone, and 3% to 10% estragole.
 
 
 
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