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Post by Granny Smith on Sept 18, 2012 19:20:04 GMT -5
I grew fennel last year. We ate some of it, the rabbits got the rest. I used the roots to make a fennel digestif. To make it, you scrub and scrape the roots (I only used 3 small roots in a quart jar), grate them, then put them in a jar with sugar, fill the jar with vodka and leave it for 6 weeks before straining. It's supposed to prevent indigestion and ease that overfull feeling after a big meal.
I don't need it for that, since neither of those are a problem for me, but I wanted to see what it tasted like, so I tried half a teaspoon. It made me dizzy and high! It was kind of a combination of drunk and high on drugs - dopey and dizzy.
I don't have much tolerance for alcohol, so I got 2 guys to try it, both of which have normal tolerances for alcohol. I gave each of them half a teaspoon and they both got a buzz, too!
I'd think that just about anyone could tolerate half a teaspoon of vodka, even me, but this was as if I'd smoked a joint and drank a couple of shots. Weird. Nobody has had the nerve to try it again.
Now the question, why did it have this effect? Is fennel root some kind of drug?
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Post by Granny Smith on Sept 18, 2012 19:22:50 GMT -5
BTW, half a teaspoon was not a typo. That's really how little we tried.
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Post by Sheila on Sept 18, 2012 19:35:24 GMT -5
I used fennel for both my children colic and used it for my great granddaughters gurd never really cook with it unless i'm cooking lamb. found this  www.nutrition-and-you.com/fennel-seed.htmlHealth benefits of fennel seeds Fennel symbolizes longevity, courage, and strength. In addition to its use as medicinal values, fennel has many health benefiting nutrients essential compounds, anti-oxidants, dietary fiber, minerals and vitamins. Fennel seeds indeed contain numerous flavonoid anti-oxidants like kaempferol and quercetin. These compounds function as powerful anti-oxidants by removing harmful free radicals from the body thus protect from cancers, infection, aging and degenerative neurological diseases. Like caraway, fennel seeds are rich source of dietary fiber. 100 g seeds provide 39.8 g of fiber. Much of this fiber is metabolically inert insoluble fiber, which helps increase bulk of the food by absorbing water throughout the digestive system and easing constipation condition. In addition, dietary fibers bind to bile salts (produced from cholesterol) and decrease their re-absorption in colon, thus help lower serum LDL cholesterol levels. Together with flavonoid anti-oxidants, fiber composition of fennel helps protect the colon mucus membrane from cancers. Fennel seeds have many health benefiting volatile essential oil compounds such as anethole, limonene, anisic aldehyde, pinene, myrcene, fenchone, chavicol, and cineole. These active principles in the fennel seeds are known to have antioxidant, digestive, carminative, and anti-flatulent properties. Fennel seeds are concentrated source of minerals like copper, iron, calcium, potassium, manganese, selenium, zinc, and magnesium. Copper is required in the production of red blood cells. Iron is required for red blood cell formation. Zinc is a co-factor in many enzymes that regulate growth and development, sperm generation, digestion and nucleic acid synthesis. Potassium is an important component of cell and body fluids that helps controlling heart rate and blood pressure. Manganese is used by the body as a co-factor for the powerful anti-oxidant enzyme, superoxide dismutase. The seeds indeed are storehouse for many vital vitamins. Vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin C as well as many B-complex vitamins like thiamin, pyridoxine, riboflavin and niacin particularly are concentrated in the fennel seeds. |
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Post by Granny Smith on Sept 18, 2012 19:41:22 GMT -5
I've used fennel seeds quite often and never had a problem with them, but this was the only time I ever had the roots - or, more to the point, a tincture of the root.
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Post by Cyngbaeld on Sept 18, 2012 20:20:05 GMT -5
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Post by Cyngbaeld on Sept 18, 2012 20:28:27 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnetholeThis is the largest component of the essential oil, which you extracted with alcohol. Looks pretty potent as a pain reliever/anesthetic and contains ether.
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Post by Granny Smith on Sept 18, 2012 20:56:23 GMT -5
Wow!
From the second article~
Anethole is an inexpensive chemical precursor for paramethoxyamphetamine (PMA), and is used in its clandestine manufacture. Anethole is present in the essential oil from guarana, which is alleged to have a psychoactive effect. The absence of PMA or any other known psychoactive derivative of anethole leads to the conclusion that any purported psychoactive effect of guarana is not due to anethole. Anethole is also present in absinthe, a liquor with a reputation for psychoactive effects; these effects however are attributed to ethanol, anethole dithione (ADT), and anethole trithione (ATT).
From a link within the second article~
para-Methoxyamphetamine (PMA; "Death", "Dr. Death", "Chicken Powder", "Chicken Yellow"), also known as 4-methoxyamphetamine (4-MA), is a serotonergic drug of the amphetamine class. Unlike other similar drugs of this family, PMA does not produce stimulant, euphoriant, or entactogen effects, and behaves more like an antidepressant in comparison, though it does have some psychedelic properties.
That's as far as I've read, so far. I'm kind of afraid to read more. I should probably dump this stuff.
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Post by Cyngbaeld on Sept 19, 2012 9:56:06 GMT -5
It is considered GRAS, but not in the concentration you have. I'd stick it in a far back cupboard in case you need a heavy duty pain killer in a PAW situation. Otherwise, I wouldn't use it.
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Post by Granny Smith on Sept 19, 2012 14:24:32 GMT -5
Yeah, I might need it if I have to saw somebody's leg off.  I think the recipe I used was from back when opium was legal and commonly available from the pharmacist. |
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Post by Valerie on Sept 19, 2012 20:50:34 GMT -5
Hide it from the kids!!!!!!!
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Post by Granny Smith on Sept 19, 2012 21:38:49 GMT -5
I have it put up. I'm kind of afraid of it.
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Post by BigM on Sept 20, 2012 5:53:08 GMT -5
I'd stick it in a far back cupboard in case you need a heavy duty pain killer in a PAW situation. This is what I was thinking. Could come in mighty useful! |
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Post by Sheila on Sept 20, 2012 10:24:29 GMT -5
It Would be good to have around in a safe place though.You might need it for ''Interrogation''
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Post by Granny Smith on Sept 20, 2012 19:35:18 GMT -5
Sheila, after a teaspoon of this stuff, the interrogatee would be in a stupor! LOL
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Post by joanfromzone6 on Sept 25, 2012 9:23:41 GMT -5
don't know about anyone else, but i'm getting so bad i can't hardly pour anything from one bottle to another without slopping all over the place unless i do use a fennel -
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