Dill

Known primarily as a spice, dill has also long

enjoyed a reputation as an aphrodisiac. It is also

said to be an inebriant, for "the garden plant is

numbered among the so-called legal highs; when

dried and smoked, dill induces a mild euphoria"

(Sahihi 1995, 153*). In the American "drug scene;'

dill leaves are sometimes smoked mixed with

glutamate. Dill contains an essential oil (approximately

4% ) consisting of carvone, limonene,

phellandrene, terpinene, and myristicin. It is likely

that dill is considered to be psychoactive because it

contains myristicin (cf. Myristica fragrans) as well as dillapiol, a nonaminated precursor for the

synthesis of DMMDA-2 (cf. Petroselinum crispum)

(Gottlieb 1973, 12*). However, as Hildegard von

Bingen noted, "[N] 0 matter how [dill] is eaten, it

makes people sad" (Physica 1.67).