LEGÚSTICO (levísticolevisticum officinale)

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	LEGÚSTICO
	*levísticolevisticum officinale*

Name
LEGÚSTICO

Scientific Name
levísticolevisticum officinale

LEGÚSTICO

Other Names:

Mount celery, Legústico, Wild Parsley

It is like a great wild celery, with interesting medicinal and culinarias applications. In central Europe its crushed root is used like condimento, because its flavor is similar to the one from the pepper. The hollow stems are used as pajitas to suck liquids warms up in resfriado case of.

Habitat: original of the ribereños countries of the western Mediterranean, widely it has been cultivated in all Europe and some regions of America. In Spain one is in the Pyrenees.

Description: it plants vivaz of the family of the Umbelíferas, that reaches 1-2 meters of height. Of robust but hollow stem. Their flowers are of yellowish or greenish color, and they are arranged in umbelas terminal.

Used parts: the root in spring, the leaves and the seeds at the beginning of the autumn.

Properties and indications: the root contains an essential, cumarina oil, starch, tannin and vitamin C. Are a good stomach tonic diurético and; it facilitates the digestion when there is shortage of gastric juice, as it happens with the chronic gastritis and the digestive atony. The leaves have the same properties, although with smaller intensity. The seeds are carminativas (eliminate intestinal gases) and emenagogas (they increase the flow menstrual), as all the plants of the family of the Umbelíferas.

Use: like condimento: the dust leaves and/or root. In infusion by root with 20 grams by liter of water, a cup after each food. In infusion of leaves with 30 grams by liter of water, a cup after the meals. In infusion of seeds with 30 grams by liter of water; to take 2 or 3 cups to the day.

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