Carrots are good for the disposition, for they help to maintain very good health, and a person in excellent health will have a disposition to match.

Carrots are important to the growth process of CHILDREN, strengthening the bones and preventing anemia. Their vitamin and mineral contents are extremely high.

During World War II, a carrot meal was developed to replace all the missing nutritional elements. It seems to have been most effective. They are also good for keeping nursing mothers in milk.

Carrots belong to the family table in all their forms – carrot sticks, grated, in soups and stews, boiled and in a delicious juice.

They should not be peeled, for their thin epidermis is rich in vitamins while their heart contains little of these.

If carrots were used more extensively as a vegetable, they would prove of great benefit to mankind. Patients are often put on a carrot diet for a short period of time for CANCER, LIVER, KIDNEY, and BLADDER troubles. Carrots are very useful in DROPSY, GRAVEL in the bladder, PAINFUL URINATION, to increase the MENSTRUAL FLOW, and in expelling WORMS from the bowels.

Grated carrots make an excellent POULTICE for ULCERS, ABSCESSES, CARBUNCLES, SCROFULOUS and CANCEROUS SORES, and BAD WOUNDS. The seeds of carrots, ground to powder and taken as a tea, relieve COLIC and increase the flow of urine. The powder may also be placed in capsules and one or two taken daily with a glass of water. Carrot blossoms, used as a tea, are a most effective remedy for DROPSY and will very often effect a cure when all other means have failed.