🌾Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
Celery (Can Tay)
Apium graveolens
About Celery (Can Tay)
Celery (Can Tay) (Apium graveolens) is a herb used in the Vietnamese Traditional Medicine tradition to help with High Blood Pressure, Arthritis, Kidney Support, and Edema. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Celery (Apium graveolens) is a marshland plant in the family Apiaceae that has been cultivated as a vegetable since antiquity. Celery has a long fibrous stalk tapering into leaves. Depending on location and cultivar, either its stalks, leaves, or hypocotyl are eaten and used in cooking. Celery seed is also used as a spice and its extracts have been used in herbal medicine.
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal