Talk:Dill oil

this page is copied from http://www.essentialoils.co.za/essential-oils/dill.htm

"to help to overcome the feeling of being overwhelmed " - awesome... :/

WikiProject Food and drink Tagging
This article talk page was automatically added with WikiProject Food and drink banner as it falls under Category:Food or one of its subcategories. If you find this addition an error, Kindly undo the changes and update the inappropriate categories if needed. The bot was instructed to tagg these articles upon consenus from WikiProject Food and drink. You can find the related request for tagging here. Maximum and careful attention was done to avoid any wrongly tagging any categories, but mistakes may happen... If you have concerns, please inform on the project talk page -- TinucherianBot (talk) 02:08, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Much of what is on this page is inaccurate or muddled. There are 2 distinct oils produced from dill - dill weed (from leaves) and dill seed. They have very different components, and different uses. The dill seed oil has a much higher concentration of carvone, hence more potent for eg digestive problems, but requiring more caution. It was dill seed that was used by pharmacists to produce Dill Water, which was sold as gripe water. There were exact recipes in eg the British Pharmaceutical Codex which specified dill seed. Encouraging preparation of home remedies using dill weed is of questionable ethic. There is a perfectly good page about excessive sweating under "hyperhidrosis". Cjsunbird (talk) 21:35, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Recommended sources
I'd suggest (and might do, if I have time) a rewrite, based on the following sources:



It turns out that "dill oil" refers to two different oils. See the sources for specifics. Waitak (talk) 15:42, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Providing medical advice
If the article is to provide medical advice it must have good references and from reliable sources not just folklore. How do we know that the oil works or, in the worst case, isn't poisonous? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.22.9.252 (talk) 01:19, 11 April 2013 (UTC)