Yuk Sehat

Who says the election arena is owned by a beauty queen? Each year, the International Herb Association, the association of the herbalist in the United States, also chose a proper herb holds Herb of the Year. The criteria were similar to the Miss World. Selected herbs must be "beautiful" inside and out. In addition to physically attractive, herb medicine must also prove efficacious, and safe for consumption as food.

This year, all of those requirements can be met by dill, aromatic plants which form needle-like leaves. Herbaceous in Latin Anethum graveolens named this for centuries and proven safe to use to solve a variety of digestive disorders.

Several studies have also managed to reveal the "talent" were buried, ie, as antibacterial, antikolesterol, and anticancer. Capabilities that make the herbalist agreed that holds a decent dill Herb of the Year in 2010 and worthwhile as a future drug.

Have many names

If you are a little familiar with his name, that's understandable. Dill herb is out and is presumed to derive from the Mediterranean region (Greece and surrounding area) and Eastern Europe. Several sources also mentioned he was from West Asia, especially since dill already become part of the Ayurveda system of medicine since the year 700 BC.

In many parts of the world, dill, called by different names. In the area of Greece for example, he was known by the name or anitos anitho. Almost the same as the name provided by the nation India, namely Aneto. Arabs call him shabath, shibitt, or sjamar. While in China, he called hell loh (Canton), shi Luo, or tu hui xiang (Mandarin). Koreans give her name or inondu tour, similar to the name given by the Japanese, that is inondo.

Which gives the name dill is a nation of Serbia, Sweden, Ireland and Latvia. That said, the nickname of a uniform in some countries due to its name last born of the term "Dilla", which in Old Norse language (ancient Scandinavian) means calming

Ward off evil spirits

Dill said the election was not without reason. At that time, at night, many fussy babies with no known reason. Ancient Scandinavian people think, the cause is interference from evil spirits.

After trying several ways, they concluded that babies fed a few spoonfuls of liquor that comes from steeping the leaves or dill seed relatively quickly calm and can sleep well. This also happens when steeping dill drinking from lactating mothers. In addition to feeling more relaxed, her milk production has increased dramatically. This phenomenon makes the Skandinavian - Scandinavian term for the people - trust, dill indeed counteract the influence of powerful magic and evil spirits that disturb the baby.

Why are soothing

According to Dr. Indradjaja Sicily, MHM, herb specialists practicing in the clinic "O", Jakarta, in general dil l have a pharmacological effect as a facilitator ASI, peluruh fart, antikejang, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and antioxidant. The effect was not independent of the active compounds contained in them such as tannins, flavonoids, essential oil and carvone, limonene, anethofuran, phellandrene, and many others.

Please note, tannins act as astringents which works by shrinking the mucus, which can help reduce the incidence of sputum or mucus causes coughing and colds.

Meanwhile, a kind of antioxidant flavonoids that contribute to inflammation and wound healing at the cellular level. His role was to make dill able to relieve fever and wounds in the digestive organs (duodenum and stomach).

Especially with regard to properties of dill on gastric wound had been examined by Hosseinzadeh, from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences University, Iran. . In their study, the rat gastric acidity increased sharply because of hydrochloric acid and ethanol, after being given a dill seed extract was significantly decreased levels of acidity. Research published in BMC Pharmacol Journal (December 2002) showed that dill works by reducing stomach acid causes injury.

Destroy bacteria and fungi

If viewed from the standpoint of the treatment system is Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), dill is an herb that is aromatic and warm. According to Dr Sicily, this herb is useful so that the energy launched symptoms caused by blockage of energy such as nausea, bloating,, sat, or spasm can be overcome.

"In addition, essential oils act as antifungal and antibacterial, so also useful for treating skin problems, especially those caused by fungi and bacteria," said Dr Sicily.

Activity of essential oils of dill in the fight against bacteria and fungi was ever proved by Majekodunmi with his colleagues, a group of Oman origin researcher, whose report was published in Pharmaceutical Biology Journal (Volume 44, 2006).

[Nirmala]