Name:
Dill weed
Common features:
-Aromatic herb
-Slender, hollow stems
-Soft, delicate, and finely divided leaves that resemble fennel or rosemary leaves
-White, ivory, or yellow-hued inflorescence
-Grows up to 24 inches
-Prefers moist environments with nutrient-rich soil
Medicinal uses:
-Essential oil, eugenol used as a local anesthetic and anti-septic
-Oil used as anti-spasmodic, carminative, appetizer, digestive, disinfectant, to help increase breast milk secretion in nursing mothers and to relieve neurological symptoms like headaches and nervous irritability.
-Good source of vitamins and minerals
Culinary uses:
-Enhance the flavor and taste of vegetables, chicken, fish and meat dishes, as well as soups, sauces, and salads.
-Seeds are also known to be used for pickling.
Healing properties:
-Helps control blood cholesterol levels
-Reduces blood sugar levels in diabetics
-Helps prevent lung and oral cavity cancers
-Helps with immunity
-Helps control heart rate and blood pressure
-Has anti-oxidant properties
Name:
Dill weed
Common features:
-Aromatic herb
-Slender, hollow stems
-Soft, delicate, and finely divided leaves that resemble fennel or rosemary leaves
-White, ivory, or yellow-hued inflorescence
-Grows up to 24 inches
-Prefers moist environments with nutrient-rich soil
Medicinal uses:
-Essential oil, eugenol used as a local anesthetic and anti-septic
-Oil used as anti-spasmodic, carminative, appetizer, digestive, disinfectant, to help increase breast milk secretion in nursing mothers and to relieve neurological symptoms like headaches and nervous irritability.
-Good source of vitamins and minerals
Culinary uses:
-Enhance the flavor and taste of vegetables, chicken, fish and meat dishes, as well as soups, sauces, and salads.
-Seeds are also known to be used for pickling.
Healing properties:
-Helps control blood cholesterol levels
-Reduces blood sugar levels in diabetics
-Helps prevent lung and oral cavity cancers
-Helps with immunity
-Helps control heart rate and blood pressure
-Has anti-oxidant properties
Name:
Parsley
Common features:
-Aromatic herb
-Grows to about 0.3 meters in height and 0.6 meters in width
-Bright green curly or flat leaves
-Rounded, mound-like shape
-Long stems
Medicinal uses:
-Leaves, stems and root used for antiseptic and carminative properties
-Eugenol used in dentistry as a local anesthetic and anti-septic agent for teeth and gum diseases
-Extraction from the herb used for diuretic effects
-Good source of vitamins and minerals
Culinary uses:
-Flavoring agent in the preparation of vegetable, chicken, fish and meat dishes, as well as salads
-Preparation of chutney, dips, pesto
-One of the common ingredients in famous Mediterranean green sauce
Healing properties:
-Controls blood cholesterol
-Reduces blood sugar in diabetics
-Anti-oxidant properties
-Helps control heart rate and blood pressure
-Helps prevent age-related macular degeneration
-Limits neuronal damage to brain
Name:
Rosemary
Common features:
-Pungently aromatic herb
-Flourishes in well-drained, alkaline soil
-Grows up to 1.5-3 meters in height
-Bushy stems and downy young shoots
-Narrow, needle-like aromatic leaves that are dark green above and grayish underneath
-Small sea-blue flowers in early summer
Medicinal uses:
-Oil used as a rubefacient to soothe painful ailments in gout, rheumatism and neuralgic conditions.
-Extractions used to prevent premature baldness and to prevent scruf and dadruff
-Rosemary tea used for headaches, colds, and depression
-Rosmarinic acid used for its anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, and anti-oxidant functions
Culinary uses:
-Enhance flavor in salads, soups, baked vegetables, and meat dishes
-Made into tea
-Goes well with tomatoes, aubergine, potato, zucchinis
Healing properties:
-Rich in vitamins and minerals
-Anti-oxidant properties
-Helps in preventing lung and oral cavity cancers
-Can help prevent neural tube defects in the newborn babies.
- Rubefacient (counterirritant), anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, anti-fungal and anti-septic properties.
-Helps with immunity
-Helps control heart rate and blood pressure