Wild Carrot Tincture

Daucus carota

Common name: Wild carrot

Family: Apiaceae

Part used: Flowers and seed heads

Habitat and Description: Wild carrot is found abundantly in dry meadows and verges in Europe and naturalised in North America. The stems are firm, growing to approximately 30cm, with a solid umbellifer shaped flower head composed of many creamy white/pink flowers with a few darker purple ones in the centre (this helps with identifiation, there are poisonous lookalikes which don't have these). The leaves a pinnate and finely divided and smell of carrots when crushed. The flower heads curl inwards as they go to seed, making some gorgeous shapes. 

Constituents: Volatile oils, flavonoids, alkaloids (notably daucine), porphyrin, furanocoumarins

Actions: Diuretic, anti-inflammatory, urinary anti-inflammatory, carminative, antispasmodic, anti-rheumatic, detoxification support, uterine tonic and aphrodisiac (old traditional)

Traditional and current uses:

• Painful urination, urinary tract infection, nocturnal urination, urinary incontinence, urinary gravel and stones, urinary stone prevention
• Arthritis, rheumatic joint pain, gout
• Oedema 
• Trapped wind, colic, flatulence, griping

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