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It is a herbal, aromatic plant, which is cultivated. It grows as high as 40-70 cm in the light, in rich soils and it needs moderate humidity.

Parts used: the bulb, the leaves, the seeds and the roots.

The therapeutic virtues of the anise have been known since the ancient times. Pythagoras claimed that the anise enhanced man’s strength, cured insomnia, stimulated appetite, made men more fertile and facilitated digestion.

Main constituents known: The vitamins, the B complex (B1, B2), C, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur, iron, aromatic essences.

Pharmacologic action: carminative, antispasmodic, expectorant, a pancreatic stimulant.

As food, the anise is used for cooking sweet and spicy dishes. It has been used as an aphrodisiac since the Greeks’ time. The medical tests have confirmed that anise seeds intensified lust.

The anise fruit have got a nice taste and are used in the phytotherapy. As a ripe fruit or as juice, it is recommended for curing asthenia and for stimulating suckling mothers’ lactation. Synthetically speaking, one may say about the anise that it is a medicine plant recommended for curing nervous asthenia, migraines, vertigos, rheumatism, cough, bronchial asthma, gastric pains, and slow digestion.

Natural treatments and application procedures:

1. The anise fruit infusion:

The infusion is made from half a tea-spoon of mashed anise fruit scalded in 250 ml of boiling water. The tea should be left for 10-15 minutes in order to become an infusion. It should be drunk in fractions: half a mug before a main meal. Caution: the tea must only be kept for a short time before its consuming. As for sucklings, an infusion from 5-6 anise fruit scalded in 250 ml of boiling water is to be made. It treats flatulence and children’s colics.

2. The tea for eliminating helminths:

The infusion is made from 10 grams of mashed fruit scalded in 100 ml of boiling water. The tea should be drunk in the morning on an empty stomach.

3. The tea from anise seeds:

The infusion is made from one tea-spoon of anise seeds boiled in 250 ml of water for 30 seconds. One mug of tea is to be drunk after the main meals. This tea treats bronchial asthma, cough, a slow digestion.

4. The decoction from anise roots:

The decoction is made from 30 gr. of broken up roots boiled in one litre of water for 20-30 minutes. One mug of tea is to be drunk after the main meals. This tea treats painful menses.

5. The anise ether oil:

It is used for curing stomach and intestine disorders, flatulence and colds.

I just can’t find an energy to do anything, and this is happening for 2 years now.I am 18.I am so lazy or something.I really can’t find energy to make myself a breakfast wright now.And I don’t have any hobbies because i quit everything i start to do, because i just lose interest in everything at one point.I had traumatic childhood, my father good stabbed when i was 11 and my mom is a drug addict,and she is on rehabilitation now.I never felt loved, so i have problem with girls to, because when i’m in relationship i just can’t accept or give love,and i just can’t force myself to go out with them because i just lose interest in doing anything.What can I do, I’m so out of solutions, and i have low self esteem because of all of this.I also have mild OCD.Anytime I start to feel loved and happy and in the productive mood, at some point i fall into depressed mood and i quit things, and i brake relationships and i lose everything.How can i fix my situation?Sry for possible mistakes because eng is not my mother language.ty

I’m really pissed off. I don’t deserve to be yelled at because I refuse to feed her addiction. Getting my stepdad on my side is really hard because he doesn’t like people angry at him… I feel horrible for him, but he needs to stand up and say, no, i’m not getting you alcohol…help?

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Uhm, I’m wondering if, in your eyes, my mom is an alcoholic or not. I’m 13, and she’s like, what? 39? Well, anyway, she drinks things like sake(japanese drink) and margaritas all the time– and usually sneaks them into mugs or hides the bottles in places(not from me, usually just my dad, who already knows that she’s drinking). And, well, she’s not an “angry” person when she’s drunk- but it’s just like, she’s not as sharp, and she can’t hear well, and her moods get all up and changing like a roller coaster, and she doesn’t pay attention to me or answer me a lot of the times. This happens a lot, to the point where I can’t always tell if she’s drunk or not anymore, because it just seems like… she’s always drinking, watching soap operas, or sleeping. And as much as I love my mom, I want to get her off the alcohol, because I kind of feel like I’ve lost her. I mean, she feeds me and takes care of me, but I feel like, emotionally, she’s not there for me, or interested in me, really.
I’ve addressed her about it before, when she wasn’t “drunk”, and she just ignores it or gets upset. I really don’t know, and my dad can’t do anything about it, either.

She’s not like physically abusive or anything like that, it’s just like, I feel like she’s not there, and more or less, me and my sisters are alone… What should I do? Don’t suggest counseling. That just won’t work, and never will I ever get her into that. Trust me.
I don’t know what I did wrong. I don’t think I did anything wrong. I don’t understand why she’s drinking, why she doesn’t pay attention to me, why she sleeps all the time, and why she’s so depressed. I can’t even get her out of the house! I have to rely on my grandparents to go out and buy clothes and stuff.

And no offense, but my dad, I feel like he’s a lost cause. He has a bad temper, and ugh– I can’t really hold up a good conversation with him. But for right now, I want to work on my mother.
See, that’s the thing. I can’t turn to my dad. I feel closer to my mom in the condition that she is by far, compared to my dad. My dad used to be a major alcoholic, and made my life a living hell. Only two years ago, after being mixed up with the cops, did he stop the alcoholism and other stuff he did to us…

But, I don’t even know. I do feel guilty, like it has been something I’ve done, even though I don’t know what. I can’t even like, express it. I just feel so hopeless and unloved and completely “blah” a lot of the time, and I try to shrug it off by thinking shallower and occupying myself, but I know that deep down, inside, there’s nothing really good for me where I am anymore.

And I don’t want to split up my family. After all they did and all that happened, I still love them madly and I can’t just let go. I want to fix this myself, without authorities and stuff like that- because I know that if I bring them in, my family will shun me and I’ll never be forgiven.
And I know I will never be forgiven, because my oldest sister, who moved out at least 5 years ago, dared to say something… and now my family doesn’t even like her. They talk bad about her all the time, and I feel so messed up when I have to pretend I agree. I don’t want to be another reject that “disgusts” them, and that they can’t stand.

They’ve already compared me to her when I did dare to do something, and I felt so hurt because of that. My sister is great and all, but she does tend to be selfish(not because she dared to say something).
As for moving to my grandparents place, I had to live there for 2 years… and that was all hell, too. I mean, my grandma kind of manipulated me and made me think I was ugly. She always citicized how my hair looked, my weight, how I dress, etc. And even now, I don’t feel that comfortable around her, because I know she is always analizing me.

But, I don’t hate any of my family. Please don’t think that.