Review

Pharmaco - Botanical Observation on
Foeniculum vulgare Mill- A Review

*Nitin Rai, Rajeev Kr. Sharma and Ashok Kr. Verma

Abstract

Foeniculum vulgare Mill. is one of the important raw drugs in Ayurveda, which is required in large quantities for the manufacture of various Ayurvedic formulations and an important medicinal plant employed to cure various diseases and possess a number of biological activities. Distribution, botanical description, microscopic characters of fruit, chemical analysis and pharmacognostic studies are detailed here.

Key words : Foeniculum vulgare, Apiaceae, pharmocognocy.ds, about 5 mm in diameter and covered with red-orange pulp, the embryo of which is poisonous.

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1. Department of Botany, Post Graduate & Research, M.M.H. College, Ghaziabad-201001, India.
2.Pharmacopoeial Laboratory for Indian Medicine, Ghaziabad. *Corresponding Author : nitinraig@yahoo.com