N. O. ARALIAOE.®. 
635 
In the Concan, a poultice of carrots and salt is used in tetter, 
and the seeds are eaten as an aphrodisiac (Dymock). 
Its fruits are recommenced in chronic diarrhoea (Balfour). 
A decoction of carrot is a popular remedy for jaundice in 
Europe. Rasped carrot is applied to burns and foul ulcers 
(Dymock). 
Said to possess diuretic properties (Meadows’ Prescribers’ 
Companion). 
A poultice made of the roots is used to correct the discharge 
from ill-conditioned sores. The raw rasped root is also deemed 
useful as a stimulating application, and is made into an oint- 
ment with lard. This is much used in burns and scalds to 
good effect (Watt). 
The raw carrot when eaten acts as a mechanical anthelmin- 
tic (Watt’s Dictionary). 
The seed yields by distillation a medicinal oil. [Cf. Taleef Shereef (Play- 
fair, transl), 113 ] The chemical constituents of the root are erystallisable 
and uncrystallisable sugar, a little starch, gluten, albumen, volatile oil, 
vegetable jelly, malic acid, saline matters, lignin and a peculiar erystallisable, 
ruby-red neutral principle, without odour or taste, called carotin. [Of. 
Pharmacog. I nd., ii., 136 ] 
The amounts of fixed oil obtained from the fruits of plants in this order 
are exhibited in the following table : — 
Oil per 
cent. 
Carum Carui, Linn. Caraway ... 
14-8 
Apium graveolens, Linn. Celery 
16-7 
Pimpinella anisum, Linn. Aniso 
10-4 
Poepiculum vulgare, Mill. Fennel 
9-9 
Anetbum graveolens, Linn. Dill 
17-2 
Daucus Carota, Linn. Carrot 
13 1 
Curainum Cyininum, Linn. Cumin 
9-9 
Coriandrum sativum, Linn. Coriander 
18-8 
Carum copticum, Benth. Ajowan 
22-8 
These were greenish or greenish-brown oils 
having 
the characteristic 
odours of theseeds. C. Grimme (Pliarm. Central!;., 
1911, 62 
661-667). 
N. 0. ARALIACEiE. 
586 . Aralia Pseudo-ginseng , Benth, h.f.b.i., 
ii. 721 . 
IJabitat : — Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhotan. Khasia Mts, 
