Celery

(Apium graveolens, Linn.)

Synonym:

Family:
Apiaceae

Description:
Celery (Apium graveolens) can grow well in low or high. Dikatageorikan celery plants as vegetables, celery plantations in Indonesia are in Brastagi, North Sumatra and West Java scattered in Pacet, PANGALENGAN and the berhawa Cipanas cool. Berbonggol plants and has a wet bar of this compound, can basically be divided into several types and include celery tuber can be eaten. Celery leaf in Indonesia used to supplementary vegetables (eg, for soup). For the ancient Romans used as a celery plant flowers. According to the botanical historian, celery has been used as a vegetable or XZII century in 1640, and recognized as a medicinal plant new scientifically in 1942. Celery plant breeding can be used 2 ways, namely through the seeds or the mass transfer of the child.

Local Name:
Celery (UK), Celeri (France), celery (Italy); Selinon, Parsley (Germany), Celery (Indonesia); Sledri (Java), Saledri (Sunda);


Curable Disease:
Hypertension, eye pain, rheumatic;

Utilization:
1. Hypertension
Ingredients: celery leaves to taste
How to make: squeezed with enough cooking water and then
filtered;
How to use: drink 3 times a day 2 tablespoons, and
carried out regularly.
Note: excessive use of dangerous!

2. useful for eye drugs have the efficacy to overcome an eye
dry.
Ingredients: 2 stalks celery, spinach leaves 2 stems, 1 stem
basil.
How to make: all these ingredients together and then pounded
1 cup brewed with hot water and filtered.
How to use: the usual drink.

3. Rheumatic
Ingredients: 1 stalk celery
How to use: as a Lalapan eaten with every meal.

Composition:
CHEMICAL KANDUNGAN: Celery has many nutrients, among others, (per 100 g): a. calories by 20 calories, b. 1 gram of protein C. d. 0.1 grams fat 4.6 grams carbohydrate e. calcium 50 mg f. g. 40 mg of phosphorus p. 1 mg iron Vitamin A 130 SI i. Vitamin B1 0.03 mg j. Vitamin C 11 mg and 63% of edible parts. Celery leaves apiin also contains, in addition to a diuretic substance is useful to increase the amount of urine.