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Carrots contain no less than 89 percent of water, about 4.5 percent sugar.
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| Do not use during pregnancy as it can cause abortions. Research conducted on mice has Wikipedia s found that wild carrot disrupts the implantation process, which reinforces its reputation as a contraceptive. Chinese studies have also indicated that the seeds block progesterone synthesis, which could explain this effect. |
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Preparation Methods :Essential oil, seed
 Remedies using : Carrot
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Carrot seed oil for :Skin care oil |
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A superb skin-nourishing essential oil, carrot seed helps balance both oily and dry complexions, heals damaged skin, and helps aged skin. |
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- Flowers:Small, of unequal sizes (polygamous), white, rarely pinkish gray,5-parted,in a compound,flat, circular, umbel, the central floret often dark crimson; the umbels very concave in fruit. An involucre of narrow, pinnately cut bracts.
- Stem:1 to 3 ft. high, with stiff hairs
- Roots: deep, fleshy, conic root
- Leaves: Cut into fine, fringy divisions; upper ones smaller and less dissected.
- Preferred Habitat:Waste lands, fields, roadsides
- Flowering Season:June - September
- Distribution:Eastern half of United States and Canada. Europe and Asia
A pest to farmers, a joy to the flower-lover, and a welcome signal for refreshment to hosts of flies, beetles, bees, and wasps, especially to the paper-nest builders, the sprangly wild carrot lifts its fringy foliage and exquisite lacy blossoms above the dry soil of three continents. From Europe it has come to spread its delicate wheels over our summer landscape, until whole fields are whitened by them east of the Mississippi. Netje Blanchan Wild Flowers worth Knowing(1917)
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 Yellow colored with a high beta-carotin content, a superb skin-nourishing essential oil, carrot seed helps balance both oily and dry complexions, heals damaged skin, and helps aged skin Apart from its vitamin qualities, essential oil of carrot is a powerful cleansing agent, which stimulates the liver and gall bladder. Blended with rose, geranium and clary sage, it also supports the physical and emotional transitions of menopause. Not to be confused with the base carrot oil which should be blended with other base oils at 10%. The base oil contains many of the same properties. Base carrot oil is orange and processed from the root, carrot seed essential oil is yellow. |
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 The carrot was well known to the ancients, and is mentioned by Greek and Latin writers under various names, the name Carota for the garden carrot is found first in the writings of Athenaeus(A.D. 200), and from the time of Dioscorides and Pliny to the present day, the Carrot has been in constant use by all nations. |
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 Wild carrots belong to Mercury, and therefore break wind, and remove stitches in the sides, provoke urine and women's courses, and helpeth to break and expel the stone; the seed also of the same worketh the like effect, and is good for the dropsy, and those whose bellies are swoln with wind Nicholas Culpeper | |
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