PRODUCT NO.: 1-0150 GCC: DS-GK
COMMON NAME: Caraway Seed, Carum
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Carum carvi, Apium carvi
FAMILY NAME: Apiaceae (Umbrella, Carrot)
INDIGENOUS COUNTRY: Europe, Western Asia
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Egypt, Europe
HISTORY INFORMATION: Used extensively as a cooking herb especially in bread, cakes and cheeses. For 5,000 years, the Egyptians have used caraway for digestive upset. In the areas of love Caraway was once an essential ingredient in love potions, and to bring lovers into the mood. The Greeks prescribed caraway tea for pale young girls, in the belief that it would bring color to their cheeks. The tea was also used to stimulate appetite and digestion, to promote the onset of menstruation, to relieve cramps and to increase lactation.
GENERAL INFORMATION: Caraway is used in carminative, stomachic and laxative preparations and also used to mask unpleasant tastes and odors. The German brandy Kummel and the Scandinavian Aquavit are made from the seeds.
DESCRIPTION OF PLANT: Herb growing to 2 feet high with a multi-branched stem, finely cut leaves and umbels of white flowers and with a thick and tapering root. The seeds are small with five distinct pale ridges.
PARTS PROCESSED: Seed, dried, crushed.
PROCESSING METHODS: Steam distilled
COLOR RANGE: Clear-yellow brown.
CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS: Class: Ketone. Primarily carvone (up to 60%), limonene (up to 49%), carveol, pinene.
YIN\YANG: Yang
PHYSICAL ACTIONS AND USES: Abortifacient, antibacterial, antihistaminic, antimicrobial, antiseptic, antispasmodic, aperitive, astringent, cardiac, carminative, depurative, disinfectant, diuretic, emmenagogue, expectorant, galactagogue, larvicide, parasiticide, stimulant, spasmolytic, stomachic, regenerator (tissue),stomachic, tonic (nerves & digestive organs). Use for bronchitis, cough, laryngitis, dyspepsia, colic, flatulence, gastric spasm, nervous indigestion, poor appetite and colds, as well as to improve digestion, soothe the intestines, relieve flatulence, relieve pain.
MENTAL USES: Life is perfect exactly the way it is. I am perfect exactly the way I am now. Everything is just as it should be, you are exactly right.
EMOTIONAL USES: Quarreling, frustrated, upset, perfectionist, needing to be right TO tolerant, patient, calm, happy.
SPIRITUAL USES: Can indicate that you are too hard on yourself and others. You are holding yourself to an unrealistic standard of which you or no one can approach. Perhaps you are making yourself wrong or others wrong for that which is happening. Do you want to be right or happy? You may have set yourself up as an authority and you think that you cannot be wrong, or you have set up others in your life to be perfect and you are finding them less than. Caraway will remind you that the plan behind your life is of your own making and will assist you in seeing the perfection in all things. Know that where you are now is actually where you need to be. Making things wrong or right is just a distraction (instead of dealing with the situation and learning what you need to from it).
APPLICATIONS: Bath, diffusor, food, inhaler, liquid candle, massage, mist spray.
WARNINGS\CONTRAINDICATIONS: Nontoxic, avoid in pregnancy and with infants and young children.
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