It is said of the rabbits that must their good Vista to the carrots who eat. And something has of reason in it, because the carrot stimulates the vitamin production To, necessary for a correct vision.
She is well-known the vitaminic importance of the carrot and the positive effects of its carotenes, since they favor the visual sharpness and night vision. In soup, stewed, fresh or in beaten it does not have to lack in any table.
Like the parsley, the carrot is one of those plants that never must lack in the kitchen; it is not but the root of a plant that takes its same name, although in some places also it knows itself like pastinaca.
Used Part: The root and the seeds
Location: There is a wild variety that appears spontaneously in the fields noncultivated, next to the ways, or in fields left, the variety that are used to cook exclusively is cultivated.
Active principles: The leaves contain alkaloids, but the importance of the carrot must to the fleshy, rich root in multitude of nutrients, between which it would be possible to emphasize vitamins B, C and in greater amount, which denominates pro-vitamin To, a substance that stimulates the also carotina vitamin production To Posee, a compound that gives its characteristic orange color him.
Harvesting: It is necessary to hope until the second year, at the end of the summer, when the root reaches its maximum development. In climates temperings harvests throughout all the year are obtained.
Gastroduodenales asthenia, convalecencia, diarrea, gastritis, ulcers, reumatismo, drop, lactancia, hemeralopia, progressive myopia, retinopatías, cutaneous aging, dishidrosis, ictiosis, soriasis, diabetes. She is diurética and it replaces the lack of vitamins and it stimulates the appetite.
In external use: eczemas, dérmicas burns, ulceraciones, forúnculos, sabañones.
Precaution/Poisonings
Its use like diurético in the presence of hypertension, cardiopathies or moderate renal insufficiency or burdens, only must become by prescription and under medical checkup, before the danger that can suppose the uncontrolled contribution of liquids, the possibility that a tensional descompensación takes place or, if the potassium elimination is considerable, an involution of the effect of the cardiotónicos.
Uses: When boiling the carrots and the rice a broth is obtained that is the remedy that used our grandmothers against the diarrea, and continues being a very good method to contain them. The infusions or you by root or fruits are practical like diuréticas. In order to take advantage of vitamins, and as stimulating of the appetite it must eat crude or in salad.
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
Internal use:
- Infusion (seeds): A teaspoon of coffee by cup. To instill 10 minutes. Three cups to the day.
- Juice of carrots: 50 to 500 cc. to the day. For the children water or milk can be diluted in a little.
- Decocción (gastroenteritis): 500 g of carrots in 1 liter of water. To boil 20 to 30 minutes, to crush and to add water until completing the liter and a teaspoon of those of salt coffee. To take like only food during two or three days, while the diarrea lasts.
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