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The seeds of fennel, caraway and dill are carminatives and aid digestion, meaning they help with bloating, gas and indigestion.

To stimulate and open the bowels, give, also, rhubarb in a decoction, the equivalent of ten or fifteen grains at a dose, accompanied with the ordinary carminative and stomachic adjuvants, ginger and gentian in infusion.

Colic may be treated with warm fomentations and carminatives; if it be due to constipation, mild laxatives are to be combined with them.

It is stimulant and carminative, and is employed in the manufacture of curry powder.

“The stimulant, aromatic and carminative properties render it of much value in atonic dyspepsia, especially if accompanied with much flatulence, and as an adjunct to purgative medicines to correct griping.”