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 use the petiole as a food ingredient. In Indonesia, this plant was introduced by the Dutch colonialists and used its leaves for tasty soup or a salad.
The use of celery is the most complete in Europe: leaves, leaf stems, fruit, and tubers of all utilized.
Celery has been known for thousands of years ago in Europe as an element of treatment and flavoring dishes.
Celery is a versatile plant, primarily as a vegetable and medicine. For vegetables, leaves, leaf stems, and tubers as a mixture of soup. The leaves are also used as a salad, or diced and sprinkled over soup, meatballs, soup, assorted other soup, or chicken porridge.
Celery (mainly men) as the medicine has been touted by Dioskurides and Theoprastus from Classical Greek and Roman times as "abdominal conditioning." Veleslavin (1596) warned not to eat celery too much because it can reduce milk.
Celery touted as an anti-hypertensive vegetables. Another function is as a laxative (diuretics), anti-rheumatic and power appetite (karminativa). Tubers possess similar properties but also used leaves as afrodisiaka (generating sexual arousal).
