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Carrot Daucus carota L.

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Common Names

Carrot , Wild Carrot; Queen Anne's Lace; Bird's-nest

Botanical Name

Daucus carota L.

Family

APIACEAE or UMBELLIFERAE Carrot Family

Carrot Medicinal Properties & Benefits
Common Uses:	Culinary * Facial and Skin care *
Properties:	Abortifacient* Nervine* AntiViral* Antispasmodic* Psychedelic*
Parts Used:	root, seeds
Constituents:

Carrot roots, the part that we eat contain no less than 89 percent of water, about 4.5 percent sugar, making them a good snack food for dieters. These domesticated carrots are not the same species as the wild carrot, commonly know as Queen Annes Lace, whose seed is the part used medicinally. The best known use for the seeds is as a natural morning after contraceptive. The seeds are not readily available commercially, but can be wildcrafted.

Apart from its vitamin qualities, essential oil of carrot is a powerful cleansing agent, which stimulates the liver and gall bladder. Learn More

Side Effects:

Do not use during pregnancy as it can cause abortions. Research conducted on mice has ^{Robin Rose Bennet} 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. Do not use wild carrot seeds for contraception without consulting with a naturopathic physician, or qualified herbalist.

How to Use: Carrot

Preparation Methods :Carrot seed essential oil can be used externally in skin care. The seeds can be made into teas, or taken in tincture form.

Remedies using : Carrot Anticellulite Massage Oil Formulas* Moisturizing Lip Balm*

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(Daucus carota) Origin- India Method of Cultivation- Wildharvested Common Method Of Extraction: Steam distilled Parts Used: Dried seed Note Classification: Middle Aroma: Herbaceous, mild, and spicy

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Carrot Medicinal Uses & Benefits

Culinary * Facial and Skin care *

Carrot seed oil for :Skin care oil
	A superb skin-nourishing essential oil, carrot seed helps balance both oily and dry complexions, heals damaged skin, and helps aged skin.

Wild Carrot for :Amenorrhea
	Wild carrot seed, Daucus carota,(Queen Anne's lace), is apparently effective as both an emmenagogue and a morning-after contraceptive. Indian researchers have confirmed that carrot seed has anti-implantation activity in laboratory animals. James Duke, The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook (2000)

Plant Description
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)}
History and Traditions
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.
Astrology:
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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