What is useful celery

Umbrella biennial plant celery is gradually becoming a culture in Russia, and in Europe and the US this vegetable as common in stores as onions or potatoes. Since ancient times, it was circulated legend about the extraordinary healing power of celery. We used it first as a purely medicinal plant and only after people learned to use it for food. Useful than celery and why it is becoming more popular?

Features of celery as a vegetable culture

Thanks to the efforts of breeders to date on farms grow three varieties of celery specialized - stemmed, leaf and root or apple. From the names themselves clear that it is used in food in each species.

Celery leaf is very easy to mix with parsley, because their leaves are very similar. The similarity is no coincidence, since both plants are close relatives. However, it suffices to take a sheet of celery together and it becomes clear that it was he - a sharp, spicy and bright flavor with what can not be confused. Celery root crop that does not produce, but the leaves are very rich in vitamins Vitamins for everyone   and essential oils, organic acids and trace elements. Leaves are added to salads and first courses, they shift when pickling vegetables used to prepare dry spices.

Celery stemmed only began to conquer the domestic market, but in the world it is the most common, especially in Italy and southern France. In the food used by long petioles and powerful, meaty and juicy. They eat all kinds: raw in salads, boiled and fried garnish. Prepare one of them and many independent dishes. Equally useful as celery leaf, it has a less pronounced flavor. Before cooking the stalks free from the rigid shell.

Celery root is rightly considered the most tender and tasty among white roots. In Russia, the most rounded tuber grows to the size of a man's fist in Evropeest varieties with cabbage. Use raw, boiled and fried, tender consistency in podvarennom form resembles the potatoes, but very flavorful.

Medicinal properties

Thus, the path to our celery dish ran through medical prescriptions. And modern cultivated agricultural species are medicinal plants in the full sense of the word. Interestingly, once in Russia, initially celery was used not only as a medical but also as a decorative plant.

Celery has always been used as anti-inflammatory agents. They were treated with "man's heart" - prostate, kidney inflammation, prescribed for inflammation of the bladder. It is very good for stomach disorders, relieves flatulence, accelerate the passage of food through the gastrointestinal tract, constipation cures.

The composition of celery includes a number of nutrients, trace elements and vitamins that his eating can be considered as taking a tasty medicine. Medications extraordinary that improves performance and mental activity, gives vigor and excellent health. In addition to health-building and rejuvenating effect, the therapeutic effect of celery has a unidirectional character. It normalizes blood pressure, helps with rheumatism and relieves asthma symptoms, tidies the water-salt metabolism (it has a pronounced diuretic and decongestant properties) for external exposure of the skin improves.

Father of Medicine Hippocrates celery and very much appreciated, in particular, prescribe it to their patients for the treatment of nervous disorders. But the significance of celery as a medicinal plant is not limited to diseases. They treat the problem of overweight and conduct courses of treatment celery diet.

The most active and useful celery in the raw state or in the form of juice. Mixed with carrot, celery juice is transformed into the most useful liquid "medicine" in the world, recommended by nutritionists.

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