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Caraway aids digestion
Caraway seeds and their oil are also used in a number of medicinal preparations for treating disorders such as rheumatism, eye infections and toothaches. Caraway promotes gastric secretion and stimulates appetite. It breaks down spasms in the gastrointestinal tract to prevent flatulence.
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Preparation Methods :Essential oil, infusions, tincture, or munch on seeds, sprinkle on baked goods
 Remedies using : Caraway
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Caraway for :Colic, children |
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Distilled Caraway water is considered a useful remedy in the flatulent colic of infants, and is an excellent vehicle for children's medicine. When sweetened, its flavour is agreeable. One ounce of the bruised seeds infused for 6 hours in a pint of cold water makes a good Caraway julep for infants, from 1 to 3 teaspoons full being given for a dose. Maud Grieve, Modern Herbal Vol 1 (1931) |
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Candida/Yeast Infection *
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Digestion/Indigestion *
IBS *
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Koehler's Medicinal-Plants 1887
The familiar seed that adorns dark rye bread is a member of the carrot family, and has tiny while or red tinged flower clusters. Each "seed" is half of a caraway fruit is used whole or ground in cooking and herbal medicine. All parts of the plant are edible, roots, leaves and seeds. Native to Africa, it now grows wild over most of North America.
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 The essential oil is obtained by steam distillation of the crushed fruit. Caraway oil is colorless to pale yellow, with a strong, warm, sweet-spicy odor, and blends well with other spicy oils. |
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 In the Kitchen: The roots may be boiled and treated like cooked parsnips or carrots. The young leaves can be used in salads or for seasoning soups and stews. The licorice flavored seeds give rye bread its characteristic taste but are also good in potato soup, cheese spreads, sauerkraut and salad dressings.
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 This is also a Mercurial plant. Caraway seed hath a moderate sharp quality, whereby it breaketh wind, and provoketh urine, which also the herb doth. The root is better food than the parsnips; it is pleasant and comfortable to the stomach and helpeth digestion. Nicholas Culpeper |
 A curious superstition was held in olden times about the Caraway. It was deemed to confer the gift of retention, preventing the theft of any object which contained it, and holding the thief in custody within the invaded house. In like manner it was thought to keep lovers from proving fickle (forming an ingredient of love potions), and also to prevent fowls and pigeons from straying. It is an undoubted fact that tame pigeons, who are particularly fond of the seeds, will never stray if they are given a piece of baked Caraway dough in their cote. (Grieve, M.) | |
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