Mature dill fruit, harvested as it ripens, is used. The smell is aromatic, peculiar, the taste is sweet-spicy.
Chemical composition
.Dill herb contains essential oil, which is a mixture of various terpenes. The fruit has up to 4% essential oil, the herb 1.5%.
Dill fruits contain fenchone, anethol, flavonoids, fatty oil (up to20%). In addition, ascorbic acid, carotene, flavonoids quercitin, isoramnetin, and kaempferol are found in the leaves.
Action and application
.Experimentally established that the herb dill in the form of infusion introduced intravenously reduces blood pressure, dilates blood vessels, excites the activity of the tired heart, relaxes the intestines, reducing its peristalsis and increasing diuresis.
Dill herb stimulates the appetite, has an antibacterial effect, increases the body's resistance. The preparation from dill seeds anetin (purified total product obtained from the fruits of garden dill) is used in the treatment of chronic coronary insufficiency and for the prevention of angina attacks, as well as spasticity of smooth muscles of the abdominal cavity organs.
Infusion of dill herb is used in hypertension stage I-II. There are indications for the use of dill essential oil as a lactation stimulant. It is also used as an expectorant, loosening agent.
Dill water is used in pediatric practice for gastrointestinal pain.
In Bulgaria, dill fruit is used as an antispasmodic, tonic gastrointestinal tract, enhancing lactation, soothing insomnia and colic of various origins means.
In domestic folk medicine herb dill is used as a diuretic, expectorant, choleretic, loosening agent, promoting the expulsion of gases. Fruits in the form of powders, infusions and decoctions in digestive disorders, shortness of breath, respiratory diseases and as a means of stimulating the separation of milk in nursing mothers. In an ancient Greek papyrus, garden fennel is recommended as a remedy for headaches and to strengthen blood vessels. Dill has been attributed with the property of being a diuretic and dissolving bladder stones. Galen considered dill to soothe painful urination.
In the GDR, dill herb is used as a digestive enhancer, sedative and as a spice
The green fruits of dill are used to flavor confectionery, fillings, cookies, vinegar, pickles, pickles and soaks.
Fennel fruit we use as a hypotensive, sedative, anti-spastic, increasing bile flow, loosening and reducing flatulence means for hypertension and atherosclerosis (especially headaches), liver disease and gastrointestinal tract..
