Carrot is biennial plant.
During the first year the plant develops root and leaf rosette, but during the second year a stem of the plant grows up to 1 meter in height.
The stem is branched at the top.
Wild carrot or Queen Anne's lace (Caucus Carota) has a thick, white and hard root smelling like a carrot.
Carrot, in its turn, has a cone-shaped orange root.
The tiny white blossoms are arranged in compound clusters.
The compound cluster contains 10-15 small clusters.
There is a lot of covering leaves.
The plant blooms from June till August.
Oval fruits are covered with tiny thorns.
Queen Anne's lace can be found in dry meadow, roadside, hill, hillside and forest.
Carrot is cultivated in garden and field as vegetable and feed crop.
You can use for medical purposes both carrot and Queen Anne's lace.
You should collect fruits (seeds) of the plants during September when they are ripened.
You should cut either cluster or whole over-ground part of the plant.
However, owing to the end of vegetation of the plant in the second year, you can get it with root.
You can air dry the herbs at a room temperature or oven dry them at a temperature between 50 and 60 degrees Celsius.
When the herbs are dried, you should pass them through a riddle to remove adulterants.

1. Seeds contain oil (11-50 percent) and essential oil (0.
   5-2.
   9 percent) rich in geraniol (up to 60 percent).
   In addition, fruits contain furanocoumarin, flavonoids, steroids, alkaloid daucine and other biologically active substances.
   In addition, the herb contains a bit of toxic polyyine falcarinol.
   Owing to the small amount of the substance the plant contains, it poses no threat to your body and health.
   The juicy root of garden carrot contains sugars, carotene (4.
   6-8.
   4 mg%), pectin substances, vitamins, mineral substances (such as, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other), micro elements and other biologically active substances.
   
2. The plant possesses antispasmodic, diuretic, anti-inflammatory and digestion facilitating properties.
   
3. An infusion, decoction and powder made of the fruits should be used in case of nephrolith, renal colic attack and coronary artery spasm.
   In addition, they can be used as great bile-moving remedies.
   An extract made of the fruits is included in various compound remedies to treat mild form of cardiovascular insufficiency.
   
4. You can use fresh garden carrot root as curative nutrient in case of cardiovascular diseases, avitaminosis, renal diseases, anemia and liver diseases.