Substances & Homeopatic Remedies
Apium graveolens
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Scentific Latin Name
apium graveolens
Etymology
In Latin language, the celery was called sedano (which gave rise to celery and its Italian, German and French cognates) or apium, which is found in Catalan and Provençal api and the regional German word Eppich. The ultimate origin of both names is dark.
The species name means “strongly smelling” (Latin gravis “grave, heavy” and olens “smelling” from the verb olere)
Family
Traditional name
Syn.: Seseli graveolens, Sium graveolens, Celeri graveolens, Apium celeri
German: Epf, Ettich
engl.: Smallage Parsley
ita: sedano
Used parts
Classification
Plantae; Spermatophyta, Angiospermae - Flowering Plants; Dicotyledonae; Rosiflorae / Rosidae; Apiales; Umbelliferae / Apiaceae - Carrot / Celery Family
Keywords
conium-like
Original proving
History and authority: Allen: Encyclopedia Materia Medica, Vol. I, 422; Clarke: A Dicionary of Practial Materia Medica, Vol. I, 145.
Description of the substance
Although celery is thought to be from the Mediterranean, indigenous "wild" relatives of celery are found in southern Sweden, the British Isles, Egypt, Algeria, India, China, New Zealand, California and southernmost portions of South America. However it is doubtful that it’s center of origin was that extensive.
Description:
Celery is a widely cultivated, biennial plant which also grows wild in salty soils of North and South America, Europe, and Africa. The fleshy, bulbous root sends up, in the second year, an angular, furrowed, branched stem from 1 to 3 feet high. Celery leaves are opposite, dark green, shiny, and pinnate, the leaflets wedge-shaped, incised, coarsely toothed. The white to gray- white flowers bloom from July to November. The fruit is a small, ribbed, elliptic-ovate seed.
The seeds of celery are a different story altogether. They are the dried fruit of that wild smallage, and they are so small that it takes some 760,000 to make just one pound. But they make up in punch what they lack in size: they are intensely aromatic and strongly flavored.
Celery seed, Apium graveolens
Nutrient Units 1 tsp
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2.0 g
Proximates . .
Water g 0.121
Energy kcal 7.840
Energy kj 32.820
Protein g 0.361
Total lipid (fat) g 0.505
Carbohydrate, by difference g 0.827
Fiber, total dietary g 0.236
Ash g 0.185
Minerals . .
Calcium, Ca mg 35.340
Iron, Fe mg 0.898
Magnesium, Mg mg 8.800
Phosphorus, P mg 10.940
Potassium, K mg 28.000
Sodium, Na mg 3.200
Zinc, Zn mg 0.139
Copper, Cu mg 0.027
Manganese, Mn mg 0.151
Selenium, Se mcg 0.242
Vitamins . .
Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid mg 0.342
Thiamin mg 0.007
Riboflavin mg 0.006
Niacin mg 0.061
Vitamin B-6 mg 0.007
Folate, total mcg 0.200
Vitamin B-12 mcg 0.000
Vitamin A, IU IU 1.040
Vitamin A, RE mcg_RE 0.100
Vitamin E mg_ATE 0.021
Lipids . .
Fatty acids, total saturated g 0.044
4:0 g 0.000
6:0 g 0.000
8:0 g 0.000
10:0 g 0.000
12:0 g 0.000
14:0 g 0.000
16:0 g 0.026
18:0 g 0.008
Fatty acids, total monounsaturated g 0.319
16:1 undifferentiated g 0.005
18:1 undifferentiated g 0.309
20:1 g 0.005
22:1 undifferentiated g 0.000
Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated g 0.074
18:2 undifferentiated g 0.070
18:3 undifferentiated g 0.004
18:4 g 0.000
20:4 undifferentiated g 0.000
20:5 n-3 g 0.000
22:5 n-3 g 0.000
22:6 n-3 g 0.000
Cholesterol mg 0.000
Phytosterols mg 1.200
(Indian Institute of Spices Research, India )