the peaceful surface. Folk Medicine use both species as astringent for female trouble of amenorrhoea. Clinically: The rhizome is used medically for palilloma of the kidney and acidic gastritis( Bello- Russ. Academy of Science, Minsk, 1965).
WILD
CARROT Daucus carota, L.( N. O.: Umbelliferae)
Common Names: Bird’ s Nest, Queen Anne’ s Lace, Devil’ s Plague. Features: Daucus, from the Greek daukos, or daukon— a kind of carrot or parsnip— a genus of about sixty species of annual, biennial or perennial herbs mainly of Mediterranean and African distribution, belonging to the parsley family( Umbelliferae). The biennial Wild carrot is a herb naturalized in America, found growing in old meadows and pastures.
The fleshy root tapers, is yellowish-white, sweetish and faintly aromatic. Its erect, branching, bristly-hairy stem is usually 1 – 5 ft. high. The leaves are basal or alternate and pinnately compounded. The flowers are usually white or roseate to purplish and arranged in flat-topped compound umbels, with the central flower, usually dark red or deep purple, blooming in June or July. The seeds are of a dull brown colour, flat on one side and convex on the other. The Wild carrot cannot be transplanted to gardens to produce an edible product. It taints milk with a bitter flavour if cattle eat too much of it, although it is not poisonous. Medicinal Part: The whole plant. Solvent: Water. Bodily Influence: Diuretic, Deobstruent, Stimulant.
WILD CARROT Daucus carota, L.( Ontario Department of Agriculture, Toronto, Canada, 1966)
Uses: Culpeper comments“ Wild Carrot belongs to Mercury, and therefore breaketh wind, and removeth stitches in the sides, provoketh urine and women’ s courses, and helpeth to break and expel the stones.” Wild carrot blossoms are used as a tea and are effective as a remedy for dropsy when all other treatment fails. The root and seeds are often ground and used for colic, liver, kidney and bladder, painful urination, to increase the menstrual flow, and in expelling worms from the bowels. Some physicians believe that the bruised seeds steeped( not boiled) are more effective in kidney diseases, dropsy, inflammation of the bladder and in gravel. You will find that improvement in some of the above conditions will relieve rheumatic pain. Dose: Infusion of seeds and / or herb, 1 teaspoonful to 1 pint of boiling water, steeped 30 min., 3 – 4 cupfuls daily.