Introduction
The celery plant is commonly found all over India, but is grown in abundance in West Bengal, Southern states and Punjab. The celery plant is two to three feet tall and its leaves are small in size and somewhat thorny. White flowers grow in clusters on the branches, which turn into celery seeds after ripening and drying. These seeds are used in our homes as spices and in medicines.
Properties
In praise of celery, Ayurveda says - “Eka Yamani Shatamann Pachika” i.e. it has the power to digest hundred types of food.
Harmful effects
Celery causes headache in people with bile nature and reduces milk.
Celery should be taken fresh because when it becomes old, its oily part gets destroyed due to which it becomes impotent. It is better to use juice or extract instead of decoction.
Excessive consumption of celery causes headache.
Treatment for various diseases
1. Arthritis (Joint pain):
Massaging celery oil on the affected areas will give relief from joint pain.
For arthritis patient, making a packet of celery powder and heating it gives relief to the patient.
Ground pain is cured by grinding wild celery with castor oil and applying it.
Mix celery juice in half cup of water and add half teaspoon of ground dry ginger and drink it. This cures arthritis.
Add 3 drops of celery oil to 1 gram of ground cinnamon and consume it in the morning and evening. This cures pain.
2. Habit of eating soil or coal:
Feed one teaspoon of celery powder regularly at night before sleeping for 3 weeks. This helps children get rid of the habit of eating soil.
3. Pain in stomach:
Consume one gram black salt and 2 grams celery with warm water.
4. In gynecological diseases:
Feeding 1 spoon celery and 2 spoons jaggery 3 times a day to a postpartum woman (woman who has given birth to a child) relieves back pain and purifies the uterus. Along with this, appetite increases and physical strength increases and many problems of menstruation are cured by this practice. Note: After delivery, by keeping a bundle of celery in the vagina, bacteria do not enter the uterus and the bacteria that enter are destroyed. To destroy the bacteria, smoke of celery is also given through the vagina and celery oil is applied on the swelling.
5. Bed wetting:
Before sleeping, feed 1 gram celery powder regularly for a few days.
6. Polyuria (frequent urination):
Grind 2 grams of celery with 2 grams of jaggery and make 4 tablets. Take 1 tablet with water at an interval of 3 hours. This cures polyuria.
Eating celery and sesame seeds together cures polyuria.
Mix jaggery and ground raw celery in equal quantity and eat 1 teaspoon 4 times a day. This also cures kidney pain.
Children who have the habit of urinating at night should be fed about half a gram of celery at night.
7. Acne:
Grind 2 spoons of celery in 4 spoons of curd and apply it on the entire face before going to bed at night and wash it with warm water in the morning.
8. Toothache:
Apply celery oil on the affected tooth. After 1 hour, mix 1 spoon each of ground celery and salt in warm water and gargle to get relief.
Take equal quantity of celery and buttermilk and grind them finely to make a paste. Press half gram of the paste under the jaw at night before going to bed. This kills the tooth worms and ends the pain.
9. Indigestion, poor digestion:
Chew 1 spoon of roasted and rock salted celery regularly after meals.
10. Lice, nits:
Grind 1 spoon of alum and 2 spoons of celery and mix it in 1 cup of buttermilk and apply it on the roots of the hair before going to bed and wash it in the morning. This kills the lice and nits on the head and they come out.
11. Chronic fever, low fever:
Take 15 grams of celery and soak it in 1 cup of water in an earthen pot in the morning. Keep this pot in the house during the day and in the dew under the open sky at night. Next day filter it in the morning and drink this water. Do this experiment continuously for 15 days. If the fever does not come down completely, then this experiment can be continued for a few more days. Chronic low fever is cured by this treatment and if the liver and spleen are enlarged, they also get cured and along with that the appetite starts increasing.
12. Infertility (uterus not functioning):
From the eighth day of menstruation, take 25 grams of celery and sugar candy every day and soak it in 125 grams of water in an earthen pot at night and in the morning consume it by grinding and mashing like Thandai. Take moong dal and roti without salt in food. This will help in conception.
13. Bedbugs:
Tying 4 bundles of celery on the four legs of the bed will make the bedbugs run away.
14. Mosquitoes:
Grind celery and mix it in mustard oil in equal quantity and soak pieces of cardboard in it and hang them in the four corners of the room. Mosquitoes will run away from the room.
15. For food items:
Make any dish like puri, paratha etc. by adding celery to it. Eating this type of food increases the digestive power and the food eaten is easily digested. Celery is beneficial in stomach related digestive diseases.
16. Pachak Churna:
Take celery and harad in equal quantity and mix asafoetida and rock salt according to taste and grind well and keep it safe. Take 1 spoon each with hot water after food.
17. In case of headache:
Heat 200 to 250 grams of celery and tie it in a muslin cloth and make a bundle, heat it on a pan and smell it, it will cause sneezing and reduce cold and headache.
Clean the celery and make fine powder, smelling this powder in the amount of 2 to 5 grams as a nasal spray is beneficial in cold, headache, phlegm getting stuck in the nose and brain worms. Grind celery and castor root and apply it on the forehead to get rid of headache.
Grind celery leaves and apply it on the head as a paste to get rid of headache.
18. Karanashul (ear ache):
Cook 10 grams of celery in 50 ml of sesame oil and put 2-2 drops of bearable hot oil in the ear to get rid of ear ache.
Cold and Cough:
Put 10 grams of mint powder, 10 grams of celery, 10 grams of camphor in a clean bottle and apply a dot on it properly and keep it in the sun. In a short while, all three things will melt and turn into water. Putting 3-4 drops of this in a handkerchief and smelling it or putting 8-10 drops in hot water and inhaling the steam gives immediate relief.
19. Vomiting and Diarrhea:
Put 10 grams of mint powder, 10 grams of celery, 10 grams of camphor in a clean bottle and apply a dot on it properly and keep it in the sun. In a short while, all three things will melt and turn into water. Putting 4-5 drops of this in batasha or hot water and giving it as per requirement gives immediate relief. If it does not give relief in one go, then it can be given two-three times at short intervals.
20. Diarrhoea:
Put 10 gms of mint powder, 10 gms of celery powder and 10 gms of camphor in a clean bottle and cap it properly and keep it in the sun. After some time, all three will melt and turn into water. Giving 5 to 7 drops of this powder in batasha gives immediate relief in diseases like cramps, stomach ache, breathing problem, diarrhea, vomiting etc.
21. Insect bite:
Put 10 gms of mint powder, 10 gms of celery powder and 10 gms of camphor in a clean bottle and cap it properly and keep it in the sun. After some time, all three will melt and turn into water. Applying this powder on the bite of poisonous insects like scorpion, wasp, bumblebee, honeybee etc. also gives relief.
22. Diarrhea:
When urine stops and there is loose motion, then swallowing 3 gms of celery and salt with about 500 ml of fresh water gives immediate relief. If relief is not obtained in one go, then take it 2-3 times at an interval of 15 minutes.
Grind celery and make powder and take it in the quantity of about one fourth of 1 gram to about half gram with mother's milk, vomiting and diarrhea stops.
Grind celery, black pepper, rock salt, dry mint and big cardamom etc. and make powder, then taking it in the form of one spoon with water stops diarrhea i.e. thin stools caused due to improper digestion of food.
23. Piles (hemorrhoids):
Take equal quantity of desi celery, wild celery and khurasani celery and grind them finely and mix them with butter and apply on warts. Warts dry up in a few days by applying this.
Grind celery and old jaggery and take 4 grams with warm water every morning. Constipation is cured by drinking celery powder mixed with rock salt and buttermilk.
After lunch, drinking a glass of buttermilk mixed with one and a half grams (quarter spoon) of ground celery and one gram of rock salt prevents piles from recurring.
Sperm disorder:
Consuming 3 grams of celery with 10 ml of sesame oil in the morning, afternoon and evening is beneficial.
24. Kidney pain:
Taking 3 grams of celery powder with hot milk in the morning and evening is beneficial in kidney pain.
25. Ringworm, itching:
Applying its thick paste on skin diseases and wounds is beneficial in ringworm, itching, insect-infested wounds and burnt areas.
Putting celery in boiling water and washing the wounds is beneficial in skin diseases like ringworm, boils, wet itching etc.
