Breastfeeding is an economic and valuable method to protect infant health during the life and provides unique biological and emotional effect for mothers and infants.  Objectives: This study was designed to compare effect of fennel on maternal serum prolactin level and neonatal weight gain to effect of domperidone and placebo on these variables.  Research method and materials: In this study 1...

In the present study evaluation of synergistic antimicrobial activity and antioxidant activity of blend of essential oil contains cardamom, coriander, fennel, caraway and ajowan were carried out. The essential oil was extracted from dried seed of cardamom, Coriander, Fennel, caraway and Ajowan were blend in sunflower oil used as base. The antibacterial activity and minimum inhibitory concentrat...

background: primary dysmenorrhea refers to the occurrence of painful menstrual cramps of uterus and is considered as a gynecological complaint. the common treatment for this problem is medical therapy such as mefenamic acid [non‑steroidal anti‑inflammatory drugs (nsaids)] and oral contraceptive pills, both of which work by reducing myometrial activity. fennel contains an antispasmodic and aneth...

plant tissue culture technique could provide sterile and controllable condition in order to assay direct effect of different compounds on plant growth accurately. in this study, the effects of aqueous extracts prepared from roots and shoots of goosefoot (chenopodium album l.), redroot pigweed (amaranthus retroflexus l.), fennel (foeniculum vulgare), and wormwood (artemisia absinthium l.) were e...

a 3×3 factorial arrangements experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of fennel extract and vitamin d3 on performance, hatchability, chick quality characteristics and immunity. this experiment was done with using 360 ross 308 broiler breeders after molting (84 - 92 weeks) in a completely randomized design with three levels (0, 50, and 100 mg/kg of diet) of fennel extract and three levels...

__________________________________________________________________________________ Received at: 29/9/2012 Accepted: 22/10/2012 The primary purpose of this research was to monitor the influence of fennel honey addition to raw, pasteurized milk and Zabadi baladi on survival of the microbial flora during refrigerated storage in order to expend their viability date. Results showed that addition of ...

In this experiment, the effects of fennel and thyme extracts with and without flaxseed were investigated on performance and egg quality of Leghorn-type laying hens (Hy-Line W-36). 200 laying hens from 26 to 38 weeks of age were assigned to five dietary treatments with five replications. The treatment groups were: 1) Control (a diet without any additives); 2) control diet plus fennel (40 mg/kg f...