27-08-2013, 11:34
You're making a bit of a blunder actually.
There's so very tiny little of the "essential oil" in raw dill and even less in dried and crushed or powdered form as to be essentially harmless.
The warning is for extractive preparations containing much larger quantities of the oils found in dill than you'd normally get a hold of. We're talking thousands of kilos. In fact, this extraction is part of the drying process and so we're talking about an ingredient that is mostly drawn OUT of the stuff you'd normally use.
And those warnings actually apply to excessive use of MANY herbal essential oils.
There's so very tiny little of the "essential oil" in raw dill and even less in dried and crushed or powdered form as to be essentially harmless.
The warning is for extractive preparations containing much larger quantities of the oils found in dill than you'd normally get a hold of. We're talking thousands of kilos. In fact, this extraction is part of the drying process and so we're talking about an ingredient that is mostly drawn OUT of the stuff you'd normally use.
And those warnings actually apply to excessive use of MANY herbal essential oils.