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Botanical Name |
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Anethum graveolens L. |
English
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Indian Dill or Dill |
Synonym(s) |
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Peucedanum graveolens Linn. Anethum sowa Roxb. ex Flem. |
Family |
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Apiaceae |
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General Info
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It is an annual, glabrous, aromatic herb, grows up to 1.2 m in height. The leaves are decompound and ultimate segments filiform. Flowers are pale yellow in compound umbels. Fruits are sub-elliptical, dorsally compressed, glabrous, with 3 longitudinal ridges, winged, with 2 mericarps. The mericarps remain joined together even under stored conditions. Vittae with marginal walls appear irregularly and have thickenings near the angles. |
| Herb Effects |
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Antihalitosis, aromatic, carminative, diuretic, galactogogue, stimulant, stomachic, aromatic carminative, reduces fever and anthelmintic (fruit); abortifacient (in rats) (seed extract); hypoglycemic, alleviates spasms (50% EtOH extract from fruit). |
Chemistry
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Mainly carvone, then limonene, dihydrocarvone, apiol, dill apiol and terpenes (essential oil); phellandrine (in certain varieties of this plant). |
Pharmacology
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In digestive (such as indigestion) and menstrual disorders, insomnia, headache, boils and swellings, to increase the flow of milk in nursing mothers and will then be taken by the baby in the milk to help prevent colic. |
| Contraindication |
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Possible skin sensitivity, avoid in pregnancy and with infants and children. |
| Reference |
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 Stary, Medicinal Herbs and Plants.
Sharma, Classical Uses of Medicinal Plants.
Chandel et al., Biodiversity in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in India.
The Himalaya Drug Company.
Grieve M. A Modern Herbal (1931) (www.botanical.com). |
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