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Apium graveolens
(Celery)
Botanical info:
Celery is an erect biennial or perennial herb. It grows up to 50 to 100 cm tall. The plant grows erect with ascending stems and bears aromatic leaves. Its flowering in early summer, and it prefers moist or wet, nutrient rich, muddy soils. It is native in the Mediterranean region but now it is found cultivated world-wide.
Hippocratic legacy:
a. In Regimen 2:
a. Celery is diuretic and secretive, and the roots most secretive.
b. In Nature of Women:
a. As placenta purgative.
b. As menstruation stimulant.
c. In Diseases of Women 1:
a. As birth stimulant.
b. For the treatment of genital ulcers.
d. In Diseases of Women 2:
a. Against uterus convulsion.
e. In Affections:
a. As venter moisturizer.
Other uses:
Celery has been cultivated as a vegetable since antiquity, either for its stalks, leaves or hypocotyl, which are eaten and used in cooking. Celery seed powder is used as a spice. Celery is carminative stimulant, diuretic, tonic, nervine, useful in hysteria, promoting restfulness and sleep, and diffusing through the system a mild sustaining influence. Good combined with Scutellaria for nervous cases with loss of tone. On this account it is recommended to eat the cultivated fresh root as well as taking the oil or fluid extract. Is said to be very good for rheumatism.