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What is it?

The ripe, dried fruits of the Aniseed herb. It can grow to over half a meter in its short year of life and in the process produces an umbrella shaped foliage with copious amounts of tiny, unmistakably flavoured fruits.

How has it been used?

Aniseed is well known to many people as a confectionary but less well known in modern times is just how central a place Aniseed used to occupy for coughs and colds. For example Aniseed was seen as a key treatment to ease the torments of whooping cough in infants.

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Personal experiences

Aniseed has a relaxing and 'opening' effect on the lungs and the digestion. I have put Aniseed into formulas thousands of times because only tiny amounts are required to improve the taste of the medicine and because many people are too tight in their chests and their breathing.

Anyone who takes Aniseed with a quiet and attentive mind will notice how it has a calming action and helps them to breathe more deeply.

Aniseed combines perfectly with Licorice for coughs and constricted breathing, with Ginger for spasm in the gut and with Wild Yam for a constricted diaphragm .

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Historical notes on Aniseed from M. Grieve's 'A Modern Herbal'

Aniseed enjoys considerable reputation as a medicine in coughs and pectoral affections. In hard, dry coughs where expectoration is difficult, it is of much value. Aniseed has a beneficial action on the bronchial tubes and for bronchitis and spasmodic asthma, The stimulant and carminative properties of Anise also make it useful in flatulency and colic.

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