Carrots

Daucus carota

HRB-0063Entry “CARROTS” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition

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Old claims, quoted verbatim: not medical advice. A warning sits above the claims and never hides them; no warning does not mean safe, only that no source here has flagged the plant.

Substance of concernEFSA: beta-asarone, elemicin, methylisoeugenolEFSA’s list of substances, not a danger rating. Checked 26 October 2026.

Historical correspondence. Ruled by Mercury, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.

Culpeper’s claims about it: 5, under 5 headings

  1. CholicCLM-000455
    helps the cholic, the stone in the kidneys, and rising of the mother;
    QUO-000384Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. DropsyCLM-000669
    the seed also of the same works the like effect, and is good for the dropsy, and those whose bellies are swelling with wind;
    QUO-000535Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. StoneCLM-001689
    Wild Carrots belong to Mercury, and therefore break wind, and remove stitches in the sides, provoke urine and women’s courses, and helps to break and expel the stone;
    QUO-001101Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. SwellingsCLM-001782
    the seed also of the same works the like effect, and is good for the dropsy, and those whose bellies are swelling with wind;
    QUO-000535Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. UlcersCLM-001918
    The leaves being applied with honey to running sores or ulcers, do cleanse them.
    QUO-001209Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance

Source

Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850

Quotations are verbatim from the 1850 text, line breaks joined. Modern research and the European regulator’s verdict on each claim are on the Concordance page, kept apart from this historical record.