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Major health benefit of fennel seed.
My writing is one health claim of fennel seeds. Scientific Foeniculum vulgare. Vulgare means common. Fennel is a plant that is in the apiacae plant family. Other herbs in this group include angelica, anise, caraway, celery, coriander, cumin, gotu kola and other plants. Fennel is sometimes known as anise.
Its taste is sweet and spicy. Specifically tasts like licorice. They are not chemically related.
There are many healthy benefits from ingesting fennel seeds. These include help with digestion, forstalling hunger and preventing gripping caused by strong laxatives. It is considered a galactogogue too. Galactogogue means it produces milk in female breasts. This is even when a woman isn't pregnant.
My focus will be on fennel seed and cancer.
The reality that a certain phytochemical ( plant chemical),volatile oil, anethole can stop early and late cellelar response blocked by tumor necrosis factor.
This means in basic terms that fennel can help with tumor
necrosis factors dealing with cancer. Specifically it can help TNFs fight malignant tumors. TNFs are natural carcinogen fighters found in one's body.
Definition TNF below following the next paragraph.
Anethole's been shown anticarcinogenic activities
Anethole is a potent inhibitor of TNF-induced NF-B activation (an early response) as monitored by electrophoretic mobility shift assay. Source MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston TX
What this means in layperson's terms. Anethole is a strong blocker of TNF induced TF-B activation.
TF-B is a transcription factor nuclear factor kappa B
transcription factor definition in the glossary section.
Glossary:
Transcription factor: A protein that controls when genes are switched on or off -- what genes are transcribed or not. Transcription factors bind to regulatory regions in the genome and help control the expression of the gene. TFs interact with RNA (Ribonucleic acid)and DNA(Deoxyribonucleic acid ) for gene activity and expression.
Layperson's explanation. This means TFs connect to regions that regulate the genone, controlling what the gene does. What this means in terms of malignancies is TFs help induce cancer cells. TNFs help kill them.
Tumor Necrosis Factor: Basically TNFs are proteins used to kill tumors. They exist naturally in one's body. The US National Cancer Institute (www.cancer.gov) says TNFs consists protein composed of white blood cells and or red blood cells (corpuscles) in response to an antigen. It is a cytokine. TNFs are effective only with some cancers. Definition of cytokine below.
Tumor Necrosis are known to boost immunity and successfully destroy cancer cells.
Cytokine. A substance is made by cells of the immune system and can affect the immune response. Source: National Cancer Institute NTFs are cytokines.
Volatile oil. A plant oil that smells but not necessarily unpleasantly. The odor is caused by molecules in motion.
Anethole, a plant chemical found in fennel, camphor and anise is a volatile oil. See definition immediately above. Anethole helps prevent cancer. Source Nutritional Healing Technologies.
Please note estragole, another volatile oil is found in fennel too. Estragole's been linked to cancer in mice. In other words its may be considered a carcinogen. Source David Hoffman, Master Herbalist. Estragole is found in fennel seeds.
The above information may seem contradictory. However this is the reason for the arguement of taking the whole herb instead of parts of it. The good parts usually override the harmful ones.
For the record there are other phytochemicals in fennel. However they are irrelevant to my article here.
For the record some of them are some other volatile oils such as limomene, fenchone, camphene, plant sterols, monoterpnes and terpenes, mystricin. Mystricin is found in nutmeg as well. |
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