The Family Kitchen Gardener (1856)/Anise-seed
ANISE-SEED.
Pimpinélla Anìsum.—Boucage, Fr.—Anis, Ger.
A native of Egypt and some other eastern countries. The seeds are annually imported from Malta and Spain. The plant is annual, and propagated by sowing the seed in a light, dry soil, in Spring. Anise-seeds have a warm, aromatic smell, and a pleasant, warm taste, accompanied with a degree of sweetness; they have been useful in many complaints, but none more so than in flatulent colics and obstructions of the breast, for diarrhœas, and for strengthening the tone of the stomach in general.