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CARROT (Wild) DAUCUSCAROTA
Galen commanded garden Carrots higher to break the wind, yet experience teacheth they
breed it first, and we may thank nature for expelling it. The seeds expel wind indeed and
so mend what the root marreth.
The Wild Carrot grows altogether like the tame, but the leaves and stalks are somewhat
whiter and rougher. The stalks bear large tufts of white flowers with a deep purple flower
in the middle of each. The root is small, hard and long and unfit to eat.
Where to find it: By the sides of fields and untilled places and on roadside
verges. Flowering time: Summer.
Astrology: Wild Carrots belong to Mercury.
Medicinal virtues: They break wind and remove stitches in the side, provoke urine
and women's courses and helpeth to break and expel the stone. The seed is good for the
dropsy and for those whose bellies are swollen with wind. It helps the colic, the stone in
the kidneys and rising of the mother. Taken in wine, or boiled in wine and taken, the
seeds help conception. Applied with honey, the leaves cleanse running sores or ulcers.
Modern uses: Carrots are an important item in the diet of cancer patients. Carrot
juice also should be taken. The Wild Carrot is rich in vitamins and carotene, from which
the body manufactures vitamin A. The infusion of the herb is used as a treatment for fluid
retention. The powdered seeds made into a tea - one teaspoonful to a cup - are taken to
relieve colic. The dried flowers are also used as a tea as a remedy for dropsy. |