Parsley

~ By Bonnie ~

I have 2 Parsley plants. I love to add Parsley to just about everything I cook. I use it in chicken, meatloaf, spaghetti and salmon. When I can my homemade Salsa, I add parsley to it. I use it to garnish things such as deviled eggs, salads, baked potatoes. I always add parsley to my olive oil when I am cooking garlic.

If you grow your own Parsley and would like to be able to save it, then you can put it into the oven on muslin trays, when cooking is finished, this being repeated several times till thoroughly dry and crisp, when the leaves should be rubbed in the hands or through a coarse wire sieve and the powder then stored in tins, so that neither air nor light can reach it, or the good color will not be preserved.

Parsley is not only used for cooking, but it is an excellent breath freshener. Just chew a little after a spicy meal.

Parsley comes in different varieties. Curly leaf and Flat leaf are the most common. I use the flat leaf for cooking.

Parsley is supposed to have many medicinal purposes also. Some of them being: As a diuretic, lithotriptic, carminative, antihelminthic, stimulant, emmenagogue (especially seeds), expectorant, laxative and antispasmodic.

Parsley is used as an herb and root in preparations for flushing out the urinary tract and for preventing and treating kidney gravel.

Parsley root is indicated for use as a mild diuretic.

The internal use of parsley herb is for flatulent dyspepsia, dysuria, and rheumatic conditions.

Parsley also stimulates delayed menstruation and promotes menstrual flow.

Parsley helps with lowering blood pressure, detoxifying and cleansing the body, acting as a natural antibiotic and has strong deodorizing properties.

It can be very effective in removing blackheads. The indications of using parsley are in these conditions: edema, fluid retention, frequent urination, enuresis (bed-wetting), kidney stones, rheumatic complaints, menstrual disorders, PMS, indigestion, gas, intestinal worms, swollen glands, gall-stones, sciatica and lumbago.

As you can see, Parsley is not only tasty, but you can find yourself experimenting with it for many uses other than cooking!!

         

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