Carraway

Carum carvi

HRB-0064Entry “CARRAWAY” 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: CarvoneEFSA’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: 6, under 6 headings

  1. Blows (black and blue, marks of)CLM-000250
    The powder of the seed put into a poultice, takes away black and blue spots of blows and bruises.
    QUO-000216Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  2. Bowels (obstructions of)CLM-000282
    The seed is conducing to all cold griefs of the head and stomach, bowels, or mother, as also the wind in them, and helps to sharpen the eye-sight.
    QUO-000244Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  3. BruisesCLM-000359
    The powder of the seed put into a poultice, takes away black and blue spots of blows and bruises.
    QUO-000216Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  4. CholicCLM-000456
    The herb itself, or with some of the seed bruised and fried, laid hot in a bag or double cloth, to the lower parts of the belly, eases the pains of the wind cholic.
    QUO-000385Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  5. StomachCLM-001580
    it is pleasant and comfortable to the stomach, and helps digestion.
    QUO-001047Papers and the EMA’s verdict, in the Concordance
  6. WindCLM-0024501850 index, p. 42
    Carraway seed has a moderate sharp quality, whereby it breaks wind and provokes urine, which also the herb doth.
    QUO-001455Papers 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.