Foeniculum vulgare, universally known as Fennel is an important seed spice crop belonging to the umbelliferae (Apiaceae) family. Fennel is very well known by ancient people of Europe and Asia Minor for its flavour and medicinal properties. Depending on the variety it may be an annual, biennial or perennial herb. Survey of published literature revealed that significant research work have been ca...

We investigated the effects of fragrance inhalation on sympathetic activity in normal adult subjects using both power spectral analysis of blood pressure fluctuations and measurement of plasma catecholamine levels. Fragrance inhalation of essential oils, such as pepper oil, estragon oil, fennel oil or grapefruit oil, resulted in 1.5- to 2.5-fold increase in relative sympathetic activity, repres...

Human effort in order to enjoy a healthy life is diverse. IT technology to these analyzes, the results of development efforts, it has been applied. Therefore, I use the care and maintenance diagnostic health management and prevention than treatment. In particular, the aromatherapy treatment easy to use without the side effects there is no irritation, are widely used in modern society. In this p...

The antimicrobial and antiplasmid activities of essential oils (orange oil, eucalyptus oil, fennel oil, geranium oil, juniper oil, peppermint oil, rosemary oil, purified turpentine oil, thyme oil, Australian tea tree oil) and of menthol, the main component of peppermint oil, were investigated. The antimicrobial activities were determined on the Gram (+) Staphylococcus epidermidis and the Gram (...

in order to evaluate the effect of drought stress on grain yield and its components of fennel accessions, a field experiment was conducted as a split plot based on complete randomized block design with three replications. this experiment was conducted in research farm of agricultural faculty of zanjan university in 2012. in this study water stress in two levels included control and drought stre...

This double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial evaluated the effectiveness of fennel seed oil emulsion in infantile colic. The results showed that the colic of 65% of the infants in the treatment group was eliminated compared with 23.7% in the control group; this difference was considered statistically significant. The study indicates that fennel seed oil emulsion is superior to placeb...

The essential oils are frequently used in food processing industry, perfumery, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Most of the oils obtained by steam distillation and water distillation. It is necessary to specify the best conditions of essential oils production to get much more major compound(s) and higher yield oil. So, fennel oil was selected in this study. The objective of this work was to ident...

In order to evaluate the effect of different biological and organic fertilizers on essential oil content of sweet fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill), an experiment was conducted at Research field of Faculty of Agriculture, Shahrood University of Technology in 2010. The experiment was conducted in a completely randomized block design with 11 treatments and three replications. The experimental trea...

to study the effect of essential oils of medicinal plants on post-harvest stability of fruits quality and decay management of kinnow mandarin, this experiment was carried out as factorial in completely randomized design with four replications. essential oils of thyme, mint, fennel, rosemary, ajowan and cummin at two levels 500 and 750 ml/l were applied to wounded and non-wounded fruits, that ha...

to investigate sa effects on physiological and biochemical characteristics of fennel (foeniculum vulgare mill) under water deficit, a split plot experiment based on latin square design with three replications was carried out at research farm of shahid bahonar university of kerman in 2012. three levels of water deficit (50, 75 and 100 percent of field capacity) and 3 concentrations of sa (0, 0.5...