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 Health Benefits: Calms Menstrual Cramps Fennel is one of the few plants that has it all — it’s a vegetable, herb and spice. That tang of licorice when you bite into a fennel seed comes from the volatile oil anethole, the same compound that gives anise its licorice-like flavor. *Calms Menstrual Cramps : Fennel seeds are teeming with anethole and dozens of other phytochemicals, including phytoestrogens, estrogen-like compounds found in plants. These can help offset menstrual cramps that affect more than 50 percent of menstruating women. In a study reported * Colic in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics, doctors treated 30 women with moderate to severe menstrual cramps, using either an extract of fennel or a nonsteroidal antibreast-inflammatory drug (NSAID) similar to ibuprofen. Both the drug and fennel effectively relieved menstrual pain. In a similar study, involving 110 women, fennel outperformed the NSAID. Fennel has also been shown to calm colic in babiesfed infants. In a study, doctors treated 125 infants with colic, dividing them into one group that received a product containing fennel seed oil and one that received a placebo. The fennel seed product eliminated colic in 65 percent of the babies given it, compared with 24 percent of the placebo group.*Stomach upset and indigestion.May also help prevent *Airway swelling.*Bronchitis.*Cough.*Mild spasms of the stomach and treat:intestines.Alzheimer’s, arthritis, cancer, colitis *Intestinal gas (inflammatory bowel diseaseflatulence), dementia, glaucoma, heart disease, high blood pressure, hirsutism (unwanted hair growth in women), stroke.*Bloating.*Upper respiratory tract infection.* Detox : Fennel is a mildly diuretic, which may help with the removal of toxic substances from the body