Root of parsley - composition and application

It is believed that parsley comes from the Mediterranean countries. It grows wild in the rocks and rocks, and its scientific name is "petroselinum" (translation - growing on rocks). So when the Greeks found parsley, it was called herbal stone celery.

Parsley is a 2-year-old plant of the umbrella (celery) family, with a not particularly sharp, pleasant smell. The plant is quite cold, because young shoots even carry a light frost. In the closed ground parsley is grown all the year round. At home, you can also get greens from root vegetables on the windows in boxes or pots with the ground.

Parsley is rich in vitamins. Especially C-vitamin, and this is the indicator that gives her superiority over most vegetables. To meet the daily needs of a person in vitamin C, in fact, only 8-10 gr is enough. Fresh leaves of parsley. Vitamin C even in dried leaves is preserved.

A lot of parsley is provitamin A - carotene from 3 to 20 mg, there are B1 and B2, flavonoids, nicotinic acid. The root of parsley (like greenery) is rich in mineral substances: a lot of potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus. They supply man with rather rare elements: lithium, vanadium, aluminum, titanium, molybdenum, manganese, nickel, necessary for normal processes of enzyme systems.

The root of parsley increases urination. Studies have shown at the molecular level that this is due to primary increases of 2.5 times the excretion from the body of salts (sodium chloride) in the urine.

Root of parsley - treatment

If the child suffers from a disorder of urination or digestion, then the root of parsley, the use of which will help to cope with the problems, is simply irreplaceable: ½ liter of boiling water is poured into 1 table. Spoon of crushed root, and after a long infusion in a thermos filter. It is necessary to take 3 r / day for 1 tsp.

There is an opinion that tea, made from dry roots of parsley, quickly cures measles and scarlet fever, and also quickly "expels the rash" and lowers the heat after its appearance.

It is also known that the root of parsley helps with cystitis, kidney spasms, cardiac edema, urolithiasis, menstrual irregularities and inflammations of the prostate.

With edema of cardiac origin, a decoction is prepared, which consists of 1 table. Spoons of roots boiled for about 10 min. In 1 stack. water. To drink it is necessary such broth 2р. A minimum of 1-2 glasses a day. But it should be remembered that this broth is completely contraindicated in kidney nephritis.

With painful menstrual or uterine bleeding apply tincture from the roots and herbs of this plant: in 2-stack. Boiling water insist about 4 hours 2 table. L. This shredded collection, and after a thorough percolation apply for a third before eating 1-2 tablespoons. L.

When cystitis is taken 5 r / day before the expected meal 1-2 table. L. Infusion of parsley root and parsley curly: 2 table. L. Crushed harvest insist in ½ stack. Boiling water a couple of hours.

Lemon juice + a rich decoction of parsley roots is used to kill stains with vitiligo or freckles. You need to lubricate the face 2 r / day: before bed and after it. On the places that are covered with bites of mosquitoes or bees, put the mulled roots of parsley.

To treat prostatitis, dry (preferably, but it is possible and fresh), the root of parsley rubbed on the grater. One table. L. Mass is poured into 100 grams of steep boiling water, wrapped and left for about 10 hours. Then it is filtered and squeezed. It takes 1 table. L. 4 r / day before eating.

Contraindications

Parsley is not recommended for exacerbations of peptic ulcer diseases, it is excluded in cases of intestinal diseases that are accompanied by diarrhea, limited in acute kidney diseases. Also, a lot of parsley is contraindicated for gout, salt metabolism disorders, oxaluria. Consumption of roots and parsley greens is desirable to limit during pregnancy.