Carrot seeds are sweet and pungent in taste and warm in nature. They can return to the spleen and kidney meridians. They can supplement a large amount of carotene and vitamin A to the human body, protect the eyes and delay the aging of the human body. Carrot seeds are mainly used to treat chronic dysentery, phlegm asthma, dysentery and other diseases, with the effects of helping digestion, relieving cough and resolving phlegm.
1. Help digestion
Carrot seeds have the effect of aiding digestion, removing bloating and stagnation, and treating food accumulation and abdominal distension. Generally, carrot seeds can be eaten together with hawthorn fruit, with obvious effect of digestion.
2. Relieving cough and resolving phlegm
Carrot seed monosodium glutamate has certain dispersive effect, can reduce Qi, stop cough and reduce phlegm, and can treat cough caused by lung qi deficiency.
Nutritive value
Carrot seeds contain: α- Pinene, l-limonene, 8-cineole, geranyl alcohol, geranyl acetate, vanillin, citral, caryophyllene, carotene, p-cymosin, asarone, sweet myrrhene, etc.
Carrot seeds also contain flavonoids and fatty oils. The fatty oil includes coriander seed acid, palmitic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid, etc. The total flavonoids extracted from carrot seeds have antispasmodic effect.
