Celery
Botanical Name: Apium graveolens
Common Names and Synonyms: Celery, Marsh Parsley, Smallage, Wild
Celery
Background: Celery in its wild state grows in the northern temperate
maritime districts. The more familiar, cultivated celery has slender
stalks, and 3 to 5 segmented pinnate leaves. Celery grows year-round
in mild areas where the soil is organically rich. The flowers are small
and white; the seeds are tiny, and have a distinctive aroma. Celery
seeds are used in cooking to flavor salads, coleslaw and soups. The
seeds contain a diuretic substance that increases the excretion of uric
acid, and they also have an anti-rheumatic and sedative effect. Celerina
is an extract made from celery and other herbs.
Celery in the Cayce Readings
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Celery was strongly endorsed in the Cayce readings for its nutritional
value and specific use as a nerve building food or medicine. Celery
is rich in phosphorus, silicon, iron, and calcium. As part of a balanced
diet, celery can help improve alkalinity which helps ward off infectious
tendencies.
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Celerina was a nerve tonic which is no longer on the market.. According
to King's American Dispensatory, 1898, it was a specialty of the Rio Chemical
Co., St. Louis, Mo., containing celery, kola, coca, viburnum, and aromatics.
Celerina was included in tonics to build up the system. It was added
to the tonics for alcoholism, general debilitation, and rheumatism.
Celerina's action is diuretic and nerve building. It is a tonic for
the pancreas, spleen, and entire intestinal system.
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Celerina was mentioned in 22 readings, usually as part of a complex
formula.
Cayce Quotes on Celery
480-19
So far as the body physical condition is concerned,
the adherence to the use of carrots, lettuce and CELERY EVERY day at a
meal or as a portion of the meal will insure against any contagious infectious
forces with which the body may be in contact.
(Q) Can immunization against them be set up in any other manner
than by inoculation?
(A) As indicated, if an alkalinity is maintained in the system
- especially with lettuce, carrots and celery, these in the blood supply
will maintain such a condition as to immunize a person.
2154-2
As to the diet, - each day have at least an ounce
of vegetable juices; such as a combination of lettuce and carrots especially,
and at times including celery juice - to strengthen the general nerve forces
of the body. These would be the raw juices, of course.
255-3
(Q) Specify foods containing phosphorus.
(A) The yolk of egg, none of the white. Those in carrots,
celery, turnips, ALL carry a form of phosphorus that are additions, and
solubles to the system.
3304-1
. celery, carrots, tomatoes and the like. These supply silicon,
as well as that needed in other energies to replenish the body.
257-11
Take as food values much that carries the iron,
the silicon, the stabilizing condition for the system; such as we find
in certain vegetables, as beets, celery, radishes..
3732-1
Digestive system shows at the present time very good,
though strained of the condition as shown through the kidneys and through
the liver, and the whole hepatic circulation, or that of liver and kidney
direct.
In the lower intestinal tract we find the state
of the taxation as is produced through the body.
Then, to assist and bring these conditions normal
for this body, we would through manipulation, osteopathically given, correct
those conditions in the lumbar and dorsal region, giving to the body at
the same time those properties that will create the perfect eliminations
for the system, giving the incentive to the nerve stream, to the blood
supply, to come to the normal forces, as which would be found in this:
Tincture Valerian...............2 ounces,
Iodide of Potassium..........15 grains,
Bromide Potassium............20 grains,
Elixia Calisaya...................4 ounces,
Elixia Celerina....................2 ounces,
Oil of Peppermint..............2 minims.
Sufficient simple syrup to make 10 ounces.
The dose of this would be teaspoonful three times
each day. Shake solution well before properties are taken.
We will find these properties acting in this manner with system:
The Valerian as the sedative to the digestive system, and especially to
the pyloric forces in the stomach proper. Iodide acting with the
nerve system, especially in that of the functioning of the sensory nerve
forces, and especially those in the pelvic organs. Bromide acting
in that as a strainer and restrainer of nerve supply and producing the
normal inclination of the functioning of the kidneys. Of the Calisaya
as the restrainer in blood and as acting upon by the lacteal ducts and
giving the liver, spleen and the hepatic circulation the cleansing, as
it were, necessary in the blood stream. The Celerina acting as the
tonic for the pancreas, for the spleen and for the whole intestinal secretions.
The action of all combine then that necessary to produce nominal eliminations,
so that assimilations, when the corrections are made in the dorsal and
lumbar regions, will become a normal condition in the body, [3732] we are
speaking of.
3829-1
Now, we find in the general physical forces there
is little to build upon, and the body continues to use up the vitality
without restoring sufficient from the assimilation to replenish the physical
forces, and gradually there has grown, then, within same, the lack of the
incentive from various portions of the organism to function sufficient
to recharge or resuscitate even the cells that are necessary to replenish
those used in functioning in the system. This then produces a general
debilitation. This is of existent condition, and this is that which
must be met first before we would begin to add to the rebuilding within
the system sufficient that the vitality will store up energies within the
body to replenish same.
We would then prepare first for the body as this:
To one-half [1/2] gallon of distilled water we would
add:
Compound Syrup of Sarsaparilla........1/2 ounce,
Tincture Wild Cherry Bark.................1 ounce,
Tincture of Stillingia............................1/2 ounce,
Essence of Yellow Dock Root............1/4 ounce,
Essence of Black Snake Root.............1/4 ounce,
Oil of Sassafras...................................20 minims,
Elixir of Calisaya.................................1/2 ounce,
Essence Celerina.................................1/2 ounce.
Then we would reduce this by slow boiling.
Keep the cover over this while boiling, else - with evaporation, through
the heated alcohol in which many of these are dissolved - there would be
lost much of the strength of the properties. When reduced to half
the quantity, add - after cooled somewhat - one-half [1/2]
ounce alcohol with one [1] dram Balsam of Tolu cut in it. Shake solution
together before dose is taken. Take half teaspoonful every three hours.
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