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    Good Organic Gardening

    IT’S ALL STALK

    Feb 14, 2018 3 minutes
    Words Kerry Boyne

    In any discussion of superfoods, celery rarely gets a mention, yet it was a medicinal plant many centuries before it was a culinary one. It was namechecked in Homer’s Odyssey, recommended by Hippocrates and found in traditional Chinese medicine records from 5th century CE. It has an ancient history in Ayurvedic medicine as a treatment for numerous ailments, from colds and flu to arthritis, diabetes and liver and spleen disorders.

    The name is derived from the French , the first recorded

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