EQUINE CELERY (apio caballar smyrnium olusatrum)

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	EQUINE CELERY
	*apio caballar smyrnium olusatrum*

Name
EQUINE CELERY

Scientific Name
apio caballar smyrnium olusatrum

EQUINE CELERY

The equine celery lives two years; during first they are born the stock and the leaves that give fruit in the second year and later are dried. This plant can reach of 30 to 50 cm of height; the stem grows very raised and gives the appearance of being very strong although on the inside he is hollow. He totally appears covered of quite great leaves, with made oval form and that lack hair in the beam as in envés as much. The equine celery can be found in the south of Spain and by all the coastal zone of the rest of the peninsula; one grows up in places not very sunny and humid, near the populations.

The time of flowering begins in March and lasts all the spring. The flowers are small and of yellowish color and in its interior is the fruit that begins to mature in the month of June; this fruit is cleared and its size does not surpass 5 mm, reason why it is difficult to appreciate at first. The part of this plant that is collected is the root and is preferable to do it in the autumn. This plant is not used at the present time and it is replaced by which they have the same properties and that are but effective much.

Formerly it was consumed as if one more a vegetable one was and one used in all the tables as much crude as cooked.

Properties were attributed to him as diurética and antiescorbútica and also it were used to open the appetite of people with little I live to eat; in some occasions the juice was taken from the root to cause the menstruation of the women. Nowadays practically this plant is not cultivated nowhere and those that we found they are wild plants.

Cocimiento: They are put to warm up 30 gr.. by the root in the middle liter of water during twenty minutes approximately and eats like a vegetable. Formerly, to eat this plant, they became multitude of stews.

Natural: The root is divided and it is added in the salad since also it is possible to be eaten crude.

Juice: The root is crushed and of the obtained liquid preparing with honey takes control and came. It is used to cause the menstruation.

Diurético. Appetizer. Antiescorbútico.

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