Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits of Celery (with recipes)

Celery has become a friend of the housewife that is, as one vegetable aroma enhancer or more specifically the cuisine is often used as a flavoring vegetable soup. Celery has the Latin name Apium graveolens and included in the family Apiaceae. Celery is one tribe with Carrots and fennel pulosari.

Celery has many benefits and properties that can be used for the treatment or herbs, very useful for human health. The content contained in celery leaves them are vitamin B1, vitamin b2, b3, vitamin A, vitamin B5, vitamin B6, vitamin C and vitamin K. This makes the content of celery can be a powerful ingredient in treating various diseases and can become active ingredient also in controlling the body's health.

Here are the benefits of celery and some types of diseases that can be cured with celery leaves :

• The content of multivitamins contained in celery leaves function as antioxidants can augment the immune.
• Can calm the nerves. This is because the celery contains a lot of calcium.
• Prevent kidney.
• Slow the aging proces.
• Blood circulation.
• Increase appetite.
• Prevent constipation.
• Prevent asthma.
• Lowers blood pressure.
• Prevent anemia.
• Assist in the repair of teeth.
• Prevent obesity.

There are many more uses for health celery vegetables other than those mentioned above, such as preventing colds, nausea, rheumatism, gout, cough, vertigo, high blood pressure, allergies, diarrhea etc. These diseases can be prevented by eating celery in a way directly, either by making a vegetable or eaten directly.

There are also many diseases that can be cured by using herbal made of celery. Here we mention one by one disease that can be treated with a mixture of celery :

1. Lose Weight
Efficacy of celery to lose weight because celery has the ability to provide essential nutrients for the body such as vitamin B, minerals, vitamin C, potassium, electrolytes and as an anti-oxidant

The trick is to take a few stalks of celery and water into a blender in celery juice. Drinking celery juice every day until you reach your ideal weight.

2. Reduce High Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is a deadly disease that claimed many human lives. To cure this disease do is prepare the celery leaves, stems and roots of approximately 100 grams. This material washing up thoroughly, then mash until smooth. Add 100 ml of water and cook until done this herbs, Drink this concoction twice a day.

3. Treating Rheumatism
If you had long suffered from rheumatic diseases you can treat using celery leaves. To treat the disease, celery leaves can be used fresh vegetables on a regular basis. Surely celery should be clean and fresh.

4. Relieves Cough
Prepare celery complete with roots and stems that are still fresh, Wash 30 grams of fresh celery, then cut into several parts as needed, then boiled with three cups of water. Once cool, strain and add a little honey (optional). Drink twice a day.

5. Treating Dry Eye
Treating dry eye disease, you can use a concoction of celery, spinach and moringa leaves. Prepare all the ingredients of each ⅓ handheld and wash until completely clean, then mash all ingredients until smooth, add a little salt, strain and drink this concoction 3 times a day.

That's the benefit of celery leaves as a flavoring and herbal medicine and may not be known by many people. Hopefully this is helpful for those who previously did not know now already know.