Celery Seed

Also Known As - Apium graveolens

ORGANICALLY GROWN HAWAII, USA  

Overview - Celery is a widely cultivated, biennial plant; the fleshy, bulbous root sends up, in the second year, an angular, furrowed, branched stem from 1-3 feet high. Celery leaves are opposite, dark green, shiny, and pinnate, the leaflets wedge-shaped, incised, coarsely toothed. The white to gray-white flowers bloom in paniculate compound umbels from July to November. The fruit is a small, ribbed, elliptic-ovate seed. 

Medicinal Uses - Celery neutralizes uric acids and other excess acids in the body. Usually the seeds (2 heaping tbsp. in 2 quarts water) are made into a tea. This tea, in a covered pot, is allowed to simmer slowly for 3 hours, strained, and taken hot, 1 cup 3 to 4 times per day.

• Reduces blood pressure. Relieves muscle spasms. Good for arthritis and liver problems. Acts as an antioxidant and as a sedative. Celery juice and oil induces menstruation. The expressed juice of the plant, particularly the fleshy petioles, is the most effective form of medicine. It can be used for dropsy, rheumatic tendencies, gout, lumgabo, tendencies toward overweight, flatulence, neuralgia, blood tonic, produces perspiration, nervousness, chronic pulmonary catarrh, lack of appetite, indigestion, and deficiency diseases. It is a strong diuretic which is not to be used when acute kidney problems exist (moderate use is allowable when kidney problems are chronic). Promotes the onset of menstruation; take it only in moderate amounts during pregnancy. As a salad vegetable or made into a tea, celery can be helpful clearing up skin problems.
• A decoction of the seeds can be used for bronchitis and as a sedative for nervousness. A yellowish oil extracted from the root can restore sexual potency impaired by illness and frigidity, kidney and bladder problems.

Parts Used - Seed.

Companion Plants - Bean, cabbage family, leek, onion, spinach and tomato. Flowers for celery: cosmos, daisies and snapdragons. Foes: Corn, Irish potato and aster flowers. Carrots can be infected with aster yellow disease from asters. Grow celery in alternate rows with leeks. The cabbage white butterfly is repelled by the scent of celery so is a benefit to all members of the cabbage family while also improving health and flavor.

Preparations - The seeds may be chewed as is or as a decoction: use 1 tsp. seeds to 1/2 cup water. Boil briefly and strain.

Precautions - Although used to promote digestive health, large amounts (many times the recommended dosage) should not be taken, since it may cause minor stomach upsets and diarrhea, in which case you should stop taking it. Use of Celery Seed may also increase photosensitivity.

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