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Dill

Anethum graveolens

Dill appears in Hermetikon as an archive-backed plant entry, with references across historical medical, magical, symbolic, and ritual contexts where the source texts support them.

Risk: low concern
Books: 26
Contexts: 4
Mentions: 144

Overview Reading Contexts Citations Related Books

Archive Profile

Identity, safety, and search aliases used to connect this herb to the archive.

Herb identity

Common name: dill
Latin name: Anethum graveolens(candidate)
Identity note: Archive hits include seed, herb, and digestive preparations.

Safety

low concern

Culinary use is generally low concern; concentrated oil and medicinal dosing require caution.

Historical archive citations are not medical advice. Use modern clinical and poison-control sources for ingestion, dosage, pregnancy, and toxicity questions.

EMA HMPC: Culinary use is generally low concern; concentrated oil and medicinal dosing require caution.

Aliases

dillAnethum graveolensdill seed

Dill in Historical Sources

Curated archive synthesis of recurring uses, recipes, rituals, and interpretive problems.

Hermetikon's curated reading of Dill (Anethum graveolens) is built from 3 source-linked archive notes and 2 preparation or ritual-use entries. The strongest recurring contexts are medicine, preparations, and ritual uses. Each note below links back to the archive source used for the claim.

Medicine

high

Hill identifies dill seed as the medicinal part and recommends it against colic, while treating the hiccough claim more cautiously from experience.

The Family Herbal | John Hill | 1755

Page 164

Preparation

high

Culpeper refers to oil of dill as a preparation model, using it as a comparison point for making oils of poppy flowers, heads, and leaves.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Chapter 61

Ritual

high

Hamel's transformation folklore uses dill in fountain water with laurel leaves as both lotion and drink to reverse an animal transformation.

Human Animals | Frank Hamel | 1915

CHAPTER XIV TRANSFORMATION IN FOLK-LORE AND FAIRY-TALE

Preparations and ritual uses

Oil of dill

high

Culpeper treats oil of dill as an established model for preparing other infused medicinal oils.

Culpeper's Complete Herbal | Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Chapter 61

Transformation water

high

Hamel's tale uses dill in fountain water with laurel leaves as a washing and drinking preparation to restore human form.

Human Animals | Frank Hamel | 1915

CHAPTER XIV TRANSFORMATION IN FOLK-LORE AND FAIRY-TALE

Dill Archive Contexts

Compact source patterns from the extracted citation set.

Medicine

2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: The Complete Book of Fortune.

Matched as dill; high confidence.

Astrology

3 passages across 3 books; strongest source: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable.

Matched as dill; high confidence.

Folk magic

2 passages across 2 books; strongest source: Miscellanies.

Matched as dill; high confidence.

Preparation

7 passages across 7 books; strongest source: Anatomy of Melancholy.

Matched as dill; high confidence.

Dill Cited Excerpts

Representative public passages with the herb mention highlighted and linked to archive source material.

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Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper

1653

"...ed in a bath. Oil of Poppies, is made of the flowers, heads, and leaves of garden Poppies, and oil omphacine, as oil of Dill. Oil of Poplars, is made of the buds of the Poplar tree three parts, rich white Wine four parts, sweet oil seven parts; first let the buds be bruised, then infused in the Wine and oil seven days, then boiled, then pressed out. Oil of Rue, is made of the herb bruised, and ripe oil, like oil of Roses. Oil of Savin is made in the same manner. So also is Oil of Elder flowers made. Oil of Scorpions, is made of thirty live Scorpions, caught ..."

Chapter 61Open in Reader

Preparationalias: dillhigh confidence

King's American Dispensatory

Harvey Wickes Felter

1854

"...ogyrate bodies. One is lavo-carvniie (C,(,H,jO), a ketone of a pure caraway odor, found also in the oils of caraway and dill (in the latter two as dextro-carvom). The quantity of carvone in spearmint oil was found by Kremersand Schreiner (PAarm. Review, 1896, p. 244) to be 56 per cent. The second body is Ifevo-limonene, once known as carrme (C„H,e). The third constituent is probably pinene. Action, Medical Uses, and Dosage.— Oil of spearmint is carminative, antispasmodic, and diuretic. It i^ used very frequently as a substitute for the oil of peppermint, and..."

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Preparationalias: dillhigh confidence

The Family Herbal

John Hill

1755

"...e. The flowers are small and yellow; they stand in clusters on the tops of the branches. The root is long. The seeds of dill are good against the colic; and they are said to be a specific against the hiccough, but I have known them tried without success. ### DITTANDER. *Lepidium.* A TALL plant, with broad leaves and little white flowers; wild in some places, and frequent in our gardens. It grows a yard high. The stalks are round, firm, of a pale green, and very much branched. The leaves are large towards the bottom, smaller upwards; and the flowers stand in ..."

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Medicinealias: dillhigh confidence

Primitive Culture Vol 1

Edward B. Tylor

1871

"...as *s—s!* might be in England, and that the Swiss call a dog *huss* or *hauss*, possibly from this. We know the cry of *dill!* *dilly!* as a recognized call to ducks in England, and it is difficult to think it a corruption of any English word or phrase, for the Bohemians also call *dlidli!* to their ducks. Now, though *dill* or *dilly* may not be found in our dictionaries as the name for a duck, yet the way in which Hood can use it as such in one of his best-known comic poems, shows perfectly the easy and natural step by which such transitions can be made:—"

CHAPTER V. EMOTIONAL AND IMITATIVE LANGUAGE.Open in Reader

Astrologyalias: dillhigh confidence

Human Animals

Frank Hamel

1915

"...o what he asked, telling him that a change back to human form could be effected by "small and frivolous herbs," such as dill put into fountain water, with the leaves of the laurel given as a lotion, and also to drink. The matter being decided, Fotis went into the bedchamber of her mistress and fetched a box of ointment from the chest, which she brought to Lucius, who thus tells the story of what took place. "Having obtained the box from Fotis, and having prayed that transformation would favour me with prosperous flights, I hastily divested myself of all my g..."

CHAPTER XIV TRANSFORMATION IN FOLK-LORE AND FAIRY-TALEOpen in Reader

Preparationalias: dillhigh confidence

Books Mentioning Dill

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26 books

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

Nicholas Culpeper | 1653

Archive Profile

Herb identity

Safety

Aliases

Dill in Historical Sources

Medicine

Preparation

Ritual

Preparations and ritual uses

Oil of dill

Transformation water

Dill Archive Contexts

Medicine

Astrology

Folk magic

Preparation

Dill Cited Excerpts

Culpeper's Complete Herbal

King's American Dispensatory

The Family Herbal

Primitive Culture Vol 1

Human Animals

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