(26-08-2013, 09:47 PM)NBSuser Wrote: [ -> ]Both are similar. And I saw an article on http://www.livestrong.com/article/71987-...naturally/ It mentioned dill can be added into the tea for breast enlargement. So I assume dill is similar to fennel. But people use fennel more often than dill.
thank you ,i just want to delete this thread but i dont have permission to do it ,don't know why
For culinary purposes there are 3 herbs which are very similar, fennel, dill and caraway, but although similar from a culinary point of view they are not the same. Of the 3 only fennel is widely used in herbalism.
I know that that we need to take alot of dill to have the amount of essential oil to be harmful ,like most other essential oil are harmful if taken in large amount,even essential oil will burn our skin if we apply it directly on to our skin without mixing it with a carrier oil ,but i still worried because i eat a lot of dill everyday lol ,stupid some time
You're making a bit of a blunder actually.
There's so very tiny little of the "essential oil" in raw dill and even less in dried and crushed or powdered form as to be essentially harmless.
The warning is for extractive preparations containing much larger quantities of the oils found in dill than you'd normally get a hold of. We're talking thousands of kilos. In fact, this extraction is part of the drying process and so we're talking about an ingredient that is mostly drawn OUT of the stuff you'd normally use.
And those warnings actually apply to excessive use of MANY herbal essential oils.