Queen Anne’s Lace
Daucus carota
Apiaceae (Carrot Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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NJA note from Ginger:
OK OK full disclosure. Have I used Queen Anne's Lace seed (aka Wild Carrot Seed) to prevent pregnancy? Yes. Did it work? I have no idea. I did not get pregnant, but that doesn't mean it was the QAL. I have a friend who was using it and she got pregnant and gave birth to a beautiful carrot-topped red-haired baby. Probably best (especially now that access to reproductive care has been criminalized by the misogynist fascists) to use more conventional, tried and true forms of birth control. Also: careful of poisonous lookalike plants.
Ginger Webb, Community Herbalist, Botanist, Teacher & Mentor
Ginger Webb has been practicing herbalism for nearly 30 years, as a community herbalist, clinical herbalist, herbal medicine maker, wild plant lover, botanist, and teacher. She has trained scores of people to be herbalists through her programs at Sacred Journey School of Herbalism.
Her mission is to keep alive the craft of herbalism through modeling the age-old wisdom of being in right relationship with the plants, and she teaches her students to be stewards of the Earth and the plants first, and to make medicine only when the plants wholeheartedly provide consent.
