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CELERY

Latin Name: Apium graveolens
Family: Umbellifrae
Height: 50cm

Although the plant is a useful food for rabbits, guinea pigs and chinchillas, the seeds are more commonly used medicinally as they are much stronger.  However the stems also have a diuretic effect.

The seeds are used for rheumatic pain, through reducing acidity in the body as a whole and detoxifying the blood.

Constituents:  Volatile oil, courmarins, flavanoids

Actions:  Diuretic, antirheumatic, carmitive, antispasmodic, urinary antiseptic, lowers blood pressure.

Soureces: Celery Stalk (International)  from Kalyx US

Herbs and Wild Plants
Constituents and Actions
Agrimony | Avens | Borage | Calendula | Cats Claw | Celery | Chanca Piedra | Chickweed | Chicory | Cleavers | Coltsfoot | Comfrey | Cornsilk | Dandelion | Echinacea | Elder Flower | Fennel | Fenugreek | Garlic | Goats Rue | Golden Rod | Groundsel | Inula | Lemon Balm | Maca | Mallow | Marshmallow | Meadowsweet | Melilot | Milk Thistle | Mouse Ear | Nettles | Parsley | Plantain | Raspberry Leaf | Red Clover | Rosehip | Shepherds Purse | Suma | Valerian | Yarrow

Herb uses, myths and herb/drug interactions
From Harvard Medical School's Consumer Health Information