Celery

Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other system or school of medicine.
Mahatma Ghandi

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Celery (Apium graveolus) is a widely cultivated, biennial plant, which also grows wild in salty soils of North and South America, Europe and Africa. Thus, celery is known and valued practically all over the world. It is used as an appetizer to improve the taste of other dishes, to stimulate digestion, as well as to eliminate excessive fluids from the body. All this was known to the ancient cultures. Hippocrates used celery in treatments over 2,400 years ago!

Present in celery are a number of noteworthy elements, which have aroused considerable medicinal interest. Today, nutritionists advise the use of every part of the plant as a beneficial food. The stalk contains 93.7 percent pure, unpolluted water and is rich in calcium, sodium, potassium, phosphorus and iron. Celeriac, the knob-like root, is a source of potassium, sodium, calcium, iron, silicon, much vitamin B and some vitamin A. since the celery juice is obtained from the fresh green leaves and from the fresh celeriac of the plant, it consequently combines the so-called "reserve powers" of celeriac with the vital elements formed by the chlorophyll of the green leaves. Here we find a wealth of chloride minerals combined with alkaline ash, something the body greatly needs.

These same elements (already known for centuries) exert their beneficial action on certain diseases. First of all, celery juice is appreciated for its stimulating effect on digestion as a diuretic, and for its general dissolving and discharging action of waste materials, mainly through the kidneys.

In this natural way, celery juice helps the organism to rid itself of accumulated metabolic waste. This has a favourable effect on all symptoms and complaints, such as rheumatism and arthritis caused by such accumulations. As well, it is a tonic and restorative for the nervous systems, and is equally helpful for flatulence, chronic pulmonary catarrh, tendencies toward overweight and lack of appetite. Celery also promotes the onset of menstruation.