The benefits of celery

Celery (Apium graveolens L.) is a leaf vegetable and medicinal plant commonly used as a spice in cooking. Several countries, including Japan, China and Korea use part of the petiole as a food ingredient. In Indonesia, this plant was introduced by the Dutch colonialists and used the leaves for menyedapkan soup or as a salad. The use of celery is the most complete in Europe: leaf, petiole, fruit, and tubers of all utilized.

Usefulness
Celery is a versatile plant, primarily as a vegetable and medicine. As a vegetable, leaf, petiole, and tubers as soup mix. The leaves are also used as a salad, or cut into small pieces and sprinkled on soup meatballs, soup, a variety of other soups, porridge or even chicken.
Celery (especially fruit) as a medicinal ingredient has been touted by Dioskurides and Theoprastus from Classical Greek and Roman times as "air belly". Veleslavin (1596) warned against eating celery too much because it can reduce the milk. Celery is touted as an anti-hypertensive vegetables. Another function is as a laxative (diuretics), anti-rheumatic and plant appetite (karminativa). Tubers possess properties that are similar to the leaves but is also used as afrodisiaka (sexual arousal plant). Celery leaves apiin also contains, in addition to a diuretic substance that is useful to increase the amount of urine.
However, celery potential to cause allergies in some people who are sensitive. Patients with kidney inflammation is not advisable to eat them.
Distinctive aroma comes from a number of volatile components of essential oils are contained, the highest in the dried fruit. Main content is butilftalida and butilidftalida as the main aroma carrier. There are also a number of flavonoids, such as graveobiosid A (1-2%) and B (0.1 to 0.7%), as well as phenols compounds. Other components apiin, isokuersitrin, furanokumarin, and isoimperatorin. The main fatty acid content dalah petroselin acid (40-60%). Leaf and petiole contain steroids such as stigmasterol and sitosterol.

Treatment Method:
1. Hypertension
Ingredients: celery taste.
How to make: squeezed with enough cooking water and then filtered.
How to use: drink 3 times a day 2 tablespoons, and performed regularly.
Note: Excessive use of dangerous!

2. For eye medication.
Ingredients: 2 stalks celery, 2 stalks of spinach leaves, 1 sprig of basil.
How to make: all the ingredients are ground together and then brewed with 1 cup hot water and filtered.
How to use: the usual drink.

3. Rheumatic
Ingredients: 1 stalk celery
How to use: edible and crude engulfed every meal can reduce the symptoms of arthritis.

4. Beauty Care
Celery can also be used for beauty treatments, such as oil menggurangi in the face, even eating celery nourish hair can clean stains on tooth enamel. For oily face using three sticks of celery. Washed and then sliced ​​into small pieces, pour and cover. Let cool, then store in the refrigerator. At bedtime, apply celery juice to face is clean. After being dried, rinse the face thoroughly. Do it regularly.

5. Hair Care
For those of you that want to lush hair, use the juice of five stalks of celery were given three tablespoons of water as a spread head. For best results use every day. Using natural ingredients celery as a medicine or easily obtainable body treatments, as well as minimal side effects.