INTRODUCTION: Two varieties of the celery: to the left, the celery nabo (Apium graveolens to var. Rapaceum); To the right, the traditional celery (To graveolens to var. Candy). The celery has an ample fan of medicinal virtues, between which the digestion and the expectoración emphasize the diuresis.
There are two types of celery: the one that grow spontaneously in the forests and the one that is cultivated in the orchards. This last one is of greater dimensions, but less aromatic than the wild, that to prosper in places with abundant water, knows like celery streams or wild celery him.
It is a plant that, although used by its medicinal virtues, is of uses common like vegetable or in salad, and is essential in any good broth that boasts of being it.
CHARACTERISTICS: It takes two years in growing. Of green and hollow stem, it reaches more than half meter of height, crowning itself with beautiful umbelas populated with white manifold florcillas. The leaves, surrounding to the stem, have triangular form, with manifold and deep divisions. All the plant gives off a characteristic, pleasant aroma for but an annoying one for others.
LOCATION: In his natural state, it lives in very humid places, with much water, and supports to waters slightly saunas perfectly, reason why it must look for near the sea, in the salt marshes, marshy zones of the mouths of the rivers. The culture requires climate not very cold and abundant irrigation.
MEDICINAL PROPERTIES: All the plant (root, stem, leaves, flowers fruits) contains active principles. Its main application is like diurético. Smooth Diurético, Carminativo, Emenagogo, Tranquilizer, Refrescante, Tonificante (nervous system), Anticonvulsivo, Tranquilizer, Remineralizante, Purifying, Desintoxicante, Appetizer (root) Also have stimulating properties and collaborate the reestablishment in diseases d kidney, vejiga to liver.
HARVESTING: The Time harvest place at the beginning of the autumn when the plant has reached its maximum development and the fruits already has matured.
USES And APPLICATIONS: The fresh plant must be used. In order to prepare a diurética drink, the leaves are crushed in a mortar and pencas or goes through a picadora. The resulting liquid is strained and takes to tacitas, but m does not have to keep at the most from a pair of days, because with time the vitamins are lost. Other forms to use it are in salad, flavored with salt, oil and vinegar, along with lettuce tomato; also carrot can add itself to onion. Let us remember that he is essential his uses to prepare a good broth. If we took it boiled, with vegetable, the resulting water like lotion can be used antidandruff. And even more: with the root it can prepares a aperitive syrup, along with roots of hinojo espárrago and parsley and rusco in farmacológicos studies one has settled down that are a good sedative carminativo.
Of interest
The root of the celery enters the 5 roots of the aperitive diurético syrup: (celery, espárrago, hinojo, parsley and rusco).
Galénicas Forms/Dosage
- Decocción (roots): 50 g by liter. To boil 10 minutes. A liter to the day.
- Infusion (fruits): a spoonful of dessert by cup, three to the day, before or after the meals.
- fluid Extract (1:1): 15 to 30 drops, twice to the day.
- It tinctures (1:10): 50 to 100 drops, one to three times to the day.
- essential Oil: 1 to 3 drops, one or twice to the day
- Juice: 1 to 3 soperas spoonfuls to the day.
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