Tall Grass Prairie
Queen Anne's Lace, Wild Carrot
Daucus Carota L.
Habitat: Waste places and roadsides.
Seasons: April - October.
Uses: Root tea as a diuretic. It's antioxidant, bactericidal, hypotensive, and worm expelling.
Preparation: Tea.
Active Chemical Ingredient: Thermopsoside.
Chemical Structure:
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Resources: Daucus carota - Natural Medicine Facts.
http://www.naturalmedicinefacts.info/plant/daucus-carota.html
Foster, Steven, (2014). Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America. New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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