Steinmetz:Apium
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Apium graveolens dulce
- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Umbelliferae
- English Names
- Natural Habitat
- Europe
- (including Great Britain)
- Levant
- Egypt
- India
- China
- and almost throughout the world
- Part(s) Used
- Herba Apii
- Radix Apii
- Semen Apii
- Oleum Apii
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- Constituent(s)
- seed: essential oil
- fatty oil
- apiin; herb: essential oil
- apiin
- sugar; root: essential oil
- apiin
- asparagin
- tyrosin
- starch
- gum
- inosit
- mannite
- cholin
- fat
- glutamin
- Action
- herb: diuretic
- carminative
- nervine
- stomachic
- appetising
- depurative
- deobstruent
- aromatic
- well-known culinary herb; root: diuretic
- aperient
- appetising
- alterative
- aromatic; seed: diuretic
- stimulant
- tonic
- carminative
- resolvent; oil: diuretic
- carminative
- emmenagogue
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Apium nodiflorum
- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Umbelliferae
- English Names
- Marshwort
- Fool's Watercress
- Mudweed
- Natural Habitat
- Europe (including Great Britain)
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- Constituent(s)
- Action
- diuretic
- resolutive
- stimulant
- emmenagogue; boiled in milk: a good tonic for the blood
- it is not so wholesome as watercress
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