🏜️North African & Amazigh Medicine
Fennel (Shammar)
vegetable
Al-Turrah is a Jordanian city located in the Irbid Governorate in the far north of the country near the international border with Syria. Al-Turrah is the largest community within the Hauran Plain Municipality and is therefore considered its main center. Its population in 2017 was 34,948, the seventh largest in Irbid Governorate. It has an area of about 28,000 dunums. Al-Turrah's territory extends to the east and north, bordering the Syrian border, while Al-Shajara and Ramtha's territory borders it to the west and south.
Conditions addressed
How to use
1–2 cups cooked or raw daily
- Eat steamed, roasted, stir-fried, or raw in salads.
- Lightly cooking increases digestibility.
Interactions & contraindications
Ciprofloxacin and other antibiotics
May reduce absorption — separate dosing by at least 2 hours.
Hormone-sensitive conditions
Mild phytoestrogenic activity.

