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This herb is so familiar we often overlook it for more exotic plants, yet this attractive plate garnish is one of the most versatile medicinal plants around and is absolutely a must have in any well stocked herbal garden. Parsley herb is high in iron content and rich in vitamins A, B, C and trace minerals. Leaves, seeds, and root all have medicinal value in the treatment of diseases of the bladder and kidneys, (gravel, stones, congestion, and jaundice) and for rheumatism, arthritis and sciatica. |
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Prep Methods :Tea, tincture, fresh or dried herb. One of the best ways to get the medicinal "good" out of parsley is to juice the fresh leaves. 
Tea, tincture, fresh or dried herb. One of the best ways to get parsley into you or your animal is to juice the fresh leaves. Alternatively you can finely chop the washed plants and blend with warm water(not boiling) into a gooey soup. This can be stained and keep refrigerated for about two weeks. Cats can take up to a teaspoon of the juice twice daily, added either to food, drinking water or best, alone before meals.
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 The variety crispum was grown in very early days, even mentioned by Pliny. The dried leaves are also used for that purpose. Parsley tea proved useful in the trenches (WWI), where our men got kidney complications, when suffering from dysentery. |
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 Parsley leaves can be crushed and applied repeatedly to a bruise. This remedy may help speed the disappearance of black-and-blue marks. |
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Cancer |
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The bruised leaves, applied externally are used by herbalists, alone or with celandine, comfrey and red clover to dispel tumors. (Dawson,Adele ) |
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Kidney |
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Parsley is chiefly used for its diuretic properties, a strong decoction of the root being of great service in gravel, stone, and jaundice. (Grieve, Maude ) |
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Digestion/Indigestion |
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The parsley herb is well known for helping to expel gas, aid digestion, and freshen breath. Chew a few leaves of this attractive plate garnish after a meal. |
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Arthritis |
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Parsley has a longstanding folklore reputation for the treatment of rheumatism, arthritis and sciatica. It's high concentration of boron and fluoride might help against bone thinning and osteoporosis. (Duke, James A, Ph.D. ) |
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| The whole herb used in food rarely causes any problems. Concentrated extracts should be avoided by those with kidney inflammation or are pregnant. |
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Petroselinum crispum Koehler's Medicinal-Plants 1887
Several cultivated varieties exist, the principle being the common plain-leaved, the curled-leaved, broad-leaved and celery-leaved. Of the variety crispum, or curled-leaved there are thirty-seven variations, the most valuable are those of compact habit with close, perfectly curled leaves.
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 It is under the dominion of Mercury; is very comfortable to the stomach; helps to provoke urine and women's courses, to break wind both in the stomach and bowels, and doth a little open the body, but the root much more. Nicholas Culpeper |
 The herb was never brought to the table of old, being held sacred to oblivion and to the dead. It was reputed to have sprung from the blood of the
Greek hero Archemorus, the forerunner of death. There is an old superstition against transplanting parsley plants. The herb is said to be dedicated to Persephone and to funeral rites by the Greeks. |
Common Misspellings: parsely
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