Celery - Apium graveolens L.

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

Celery has been known for thousands of years ago in Europe as an element of treatment and flavoring dishes. Pliny the Elder has been written since the beginning of the modern calendar. Linnaeus describes it the first time in the first edition of Species Plantarum. He put the celery in the Umbelliferae tribe, now called Apiaceae (fennel-adasan tribe).

Terna celery is small, less than 1m in height. Arranged compound leaves with long stalks. This stems in certain cultivars can be very large and is sold separately from the leaves as a vegetable. The trunk is usually very short. In particular cultivation enlarged group to form tubers, which can also be eaten. The flowers are arranged plural rocky, typical Apiaceae. The fruit is small dark brown.

Celery (Apium graveolens) can grow well in low or high plains. Dikatageorikan celery plant as a vegetable, celery plantations in Indonesia are in Brastagi, North Sumatra and West Java are scattered in Pacet, Pangalengan and Cipanas the cool air. Tuberous plants and have a wet bar of this compound, can basically be divided into several types and include celery tuber can be eaten. Celery used in Indonesia to complement vegetables (eg, for soup). For the ancient Romans used celery plants as wreaths.

According to the historian of botany, celery has been used as a vegetable since XZII century or in 1640, and is recognized as a medicinal plant is scientifically new in 1942. Celery plant breeding can be used two ways, namely through the seed or the mass removal of children.

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

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

2. useful for eye drugs have efficacy to overcome the eye
   dry.
    Ingredients: 2 stalks celery, 2 stalks of spinach leaves, a stalk
    basil leaves.
    How to make: all ingredients are crushed 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: eaten as fresh vegetables at each meal.