Herb
Dill
A feathery herb and its seeds, used in food or a weak tea, traditionally soothing for gas, colic, and an unsettled stomach.
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👶 Safe for children?
This remedy carries age-related cautions. Please read them before giving it to a child, and check with your pediatrician or pharmacist first.
- For infants, use only a weak, cooled tea and check with your pediatrician first.
🥄 How to use it
Steep 1 teaspoon of lightly crushed dill seeds in hot water for 10 minutes for a teaA warm drink made by steeping herbs in hot water. How to make a tea →, or use the fresh fronds generously in food; a very weak, cooled tea is a traditional soother for a colicky baby (with a doctor's okay).
How much: 1 teaspoon crushed seeds as teaA warm drink made by steeping herbs in hot water. How to make a tea →, or generous culinary use; very weak and cooled for infants, with medical guidance.
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Dill is the feathery, fresh-tasting herbA plant, or part of one, used for flavor, food, or gentle health support. More → of pickles and potato dishes, and both its leaves and seeds have a long, gentle history of soothing a gassy, crampy stomach. Its name even hints at it — 'dill' comes from an old word meaning 'to soothe' — and dill seed was the original ingredient in traditional baby 'gripe water.'
The fresh fronds brighten food, and a teaA warm drink made by steeping herbs in hot water. How to make a tea → of the crushed seeds settles digestionHow your body breaks food down into pieces small enough to use for energy. More →. It's about as gentle as herbs come; for little ones, a weak, cooled tea is the traditional approach, best cleared with your pediatrician.
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⚖️ Cautions
- Food and tea amounts are very gentle.
- For infants, use only a weak, cooled tea and check with your pediatrician first.
- Rare allergy is possible; avoid large medicinal seed doses in pregnancy.
📚 Why we trust it
- A traditional gentle remedy for gas and colic
- The original 'dilly' in old gripe-water recipes
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🕊️ A word of encouragement
A herb whose very name means 'to soothe.' May calm settle over you, gentle as a feathered leaf.
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