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Description
Dill Weed (anethum graveolens) corresponds with the virtues of action, strength, and trust.
Looks like exceptionally green grass shreds.
Smells like freshly mown sweet grass.
Taste is crisp and fresh, sometimes pungent, but not sour.
Feels like soft confetti.
Spiritual Info
Eat dill weed to quiet your mind and body so your spirit can work in peace. As you consume dill weed, imagine its calmative properties at work.
Imagine how much easier it is for your spirit to direct and coordinate events when your thoughts and actions are not obstructing its work! Feel your Self letting go (and Spirit gearing up!) with every tasteful bite.
After or during your meal, you will regain a sense of peace because you know that by trusting your spirit, you will learn to act and react in healthy ways and will become stronger in heart and mind.
Magical & Historical Info
Dill weed has a history of protecting your home and body from the negative and hurtful energies of other people. Placing dill weed above your door is said to prevent anyone who wishes you harm from entering your home, and placing dill weed above all doors and windows deflects the ‘evil-eye’.
Health Info
Dill weed contains carvone, which has a calming effect, and aids digestion by relieving flatulence, bloating, and all types of intestinal gas build-up.
Dill weed encourages restful sleep, and increases your milk supply if you are a nursing mother.
To get the full medicinal effect of dill weed, make it into a tea. Steep the herb for at least 15 minutes to release its medicinal power.
Mae West said, "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful." But when it comes to consuming dill weed, make sure you are listening to your body. My son ate a whole jar of dill pickles. The diarrhea that followed was anything but calm and nothing like wonderful! Everything in moderation!
Nutrition Facts:
Dill weed is a very good source of calcium, dietary fiber, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, manganese and vitamins A, C, and B6. Dill weed is a good source of thiamin.
Dill Weed Summary
Dill helps you learn to trust your body, mind and spirit to build inner strength and bring forward movement to your life. Dill Weed calms your mind and spirit and aids digestion to enhance your overall wellness.
Natural medicine shows dill weed is a calmative. Calming your mind and body frees your spirit. Freeing your spirit empowers your self, and empowering yourself leads to healing thoughts and actions.
Historical and magical uses of dill weed include using it to protect yourself against bad people and energies. When you believe that you are protecting yourself against other people’s ill will, then aren’t you in fact allowing yourself to trust that Spirit will protect you? When you are actively doing something to protect yourself (instead of sitting around being a victim), you are enhancing your own strength.
Sometimes we simply cannot believe that we can form a protective ring around ourselves and the ones we love alone. If strategically placing of dill weed over your doors and windows gives you the strength to trust or to take action that frees you from your own limitations, then do it. If prayer or meditation allow you to separate yourself from disharmony, then do it. It doesn’t matter how you create harmony, but you have to be willing to create it!
Virtue Correlation
Dill Weed empowers the virtues that make you Active, Strong, & Trusting.
Examining tradition is a valid way to learn how an herb will work for you. Scientific proof may be lacking, but the human experience is a truthful representation of things science may not yet show.
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