Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

Dill (Sabbasige soppu) Did you know that Dill or Sabbasige soppu in Kannada language, an aromatic annual herb of the parsley family, with fine blue-green leaves and yellow flowers, is used for flavouring and for medicinal purposes? Dill is originally an European annual herb in the celery family Apiaceae with the generic name Anethum graveolons. Its name is derived from the Old Norse word “dilla,” which means to soothe. In India, the species is known as Anethum sowa, also as Pimpinella anisum, but is much stronger and bolder than the European variety. It is widely used in all Indian states as a herb with different names in regional languages such as: Sabbasige soppu (ಸಬ್ಬಸಿಗೆ ಸೊಪ್ಪು) in Kannada; Shatapushpa in Sanskrit, Sholpa in Bengali, savaa in Hind, shepu (शेपू) in Marathi and Konkani, Soa-kura in Telugu, Sada kuppi (சதகுப்பி) in Tamil, Chathakuppa (ചതകുപ്പ) in Malyalam, Soa in Punjabi, and suva (સૂવા) in Gujarathi.  Its historicity is traced to the...