Wild Carrot seeds, Daucus Carota, wild carrot Queen Anne SW766

WILD CARROT seeds/ DAUCUS CAROTA

Biennial, less often an annual herb from the Umbrella family. Wild carrot is also a good honey plant and medicinal plant. Other names for wild carrots are carrot, bird's nest, yellow turnip. It was from it that the sowing carrots known to us were obtained by selection, and the medicinal properties of wild carrots were known even in Ancient Greece.
Carrots grow up to 1 m in height, the branched stem is covered with hairs. It blooms from June to July with large umbellate inflorescences of white color. In August-September, fruits ripen, consisting of 2 elliptical halves. The fleshy, spindle-shaped white root is not eaten, but is used as a medicine.
Wild carrots are a fairly common plant that can grow along roads, in fields and meadows.
The plant is unpretentious in care, propagates by seeds and tolerates both cold and drought.
Wild carrots are recognized as good honey plants and pollen plants, honey productivity can reach 20-40 kg per 1 ha.
In medicine, all parts of the plant are used: from seeds to root crops, but the seeds are considered the most valuable.
Root vegetable - gastritis, constipation, wounds and tumors.
The root is anemia.
Stem and flowers - liver disease, jaundice.
Seeds - urolithiasis, inflammation of the urinary system and many other pathologies.
Decoctions, infusions and powders are also used to eliminate flatulence, to fight worms. The benefits of the plant have also been proven for the treatment of tuberculosis: reduction of cough attacks, destruction of pathogens, prevention of bleeding.