Tacuinum Sanitatis

I. Dill (Aneti)

Nature: Warm and dry toward the end of the second degree and the beginning of the third.
Optimum: The kind that is green, fresh, and tender.
Usefulness: Brings relief to a stomach that is cold and windy.
Dangers: It is harmful to the kidneys and causes nausea with its essence.
Neutralization of the Dangers: With lemoncellis - the juice of small lemons.
Effects: Moderately nourishing. It is good for cold and damp temperaments, for old people, in Winter and in cold regions.

From the Tacuinum of Vienna

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