Anise is a common seasoning, but also a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, namely aniseed, when used medicinally, it can be used to treat gastric diseases caused by cold evidence, the specific should be used in accordance with the doctor’s instructions.
Anise is the dried mature fruit of the magnolia plant anise, pungent flavor, warm nature, attributed to the liver, spleen, kidney, stomach meridian, has the effect of dispersing cold and warming the yang, regulating qi to stop pain, can be used to treat cold hernia and abdominal pain (acute abdominal pain caused by internal cold and cold and feel the wind and cold outside), stomach cold and vomiting, kidney deficiency and back pain, epigastric and abdominal cold pain (gastro-epigastric and abdominal pain caused by the pain of cold).
Anise can be used with cloves and ginger to treat vomiting with cold stomach, with cardamom and orange peel to treat cold pain in the epigastrium (stomach and abdomen), and with Citrus aurantium husk and burnt hawthorn to treat indigestion of food.
Therefore, star anise has a certain therapeutic effect on gastric and epigastric disorders caused by cold symptoms, but other types of gastric disorders can not reach the therapeutic effect.
The adverse effects and contraindications of Anise Fennel are not clear, and it should be used under the guidance of a doctor.