Foeniculum vulgare is fennel is a small herb with yellow flowers and is indigenous to the Mediterranean but as it grows easily near the sea, it has spread worldwide.
The medical benefits of fennel are healing earache, abdominal pain, flatulence, and stomach pain. To relieve any of them above a decoction of fennel should be taken orally.
The chemical breakdown of fennel is the following: “proteins: 2.8%; fat: 0.4%, carbohydrates: 5.1%, fiber 0.5%, ash: 1.7%, calcium: 100 mg, phosphorus: 51 mg, iron 2.7 mg, potassium: 397 mg; carotene: 2100 mg, ascorbic acid 31 mg.”
Studies described on Tramil indicate that decoction of fresh leaves ranging from 15-25 g/L and dry seed infusion (5-10g/L) taken orally relieves and reduces minor digestive tract spasms.
Fennel has a variety of beneficial health uses in the Caribbean but the majority are not studied in the United States as Benitez Rojo’s article states the Caribbean continues to be only addressed as the disjointed and unstable island, “The main obstacles to any global study of the Caribbean’s societies, insular or continental, are exactly those things that scholars usually adduce to define the area: its fragmentation; its instability; its reciprocal isolation; its uprootedness; its cultural heterogeneity; its lack of historiography…its syncretism” (19).
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