Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
666.74.05
666.74.05 Ridolfia segetum
English: Corn parsley; False fennel; False caraway.
Botany: Mediterranean; stem erect, striate, branched; leaves glabrous, finely divided, filiform leaflets, base of the petiole enlarged; flowers yellow, in small umbels.
Content: essential oil.
Use: pickle industry.
Body
Lungs: cough, infections.
Abdomen: gas.
Rectum: constipation.
Female: menses irregular; milk scanty in nursing mothers.
Skin: lice.