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Parsely, of course, is essential as a garnish and spice in innumerable recipes and sauces.
Chopped parsley and garlic in olive oil are a Mediterranean standard. French fines herbes uses parsley, as does sauce béarnaise.
Parsely smells best uncooked or quick fried in olive oil. But bouquet garni, a parsely-rich herb bundle cooked in soups, sauces or stews, is immersed in the dish for as long as it is cooked.
Lebanese hummus, baba ganoush and tabbouleh make good use of parsley.
Grieve's classic 'A Modern Herbal': 'The uses of Parsley are many and are by no means restricted to the culinary sphere. The most familiar employment of the leaves in their fresh state is, of course, finely-chopped, as a flavouring to sauces, soups, stuffings, rissoles, minces, etc., and also sprinkled over vegetables or salads. The leaves are extensively cultivated, not only for sending to market fresh, but also for the purpose of being dried and powdered as a culinary flavouring in winter, when only a limited supply of fresh Parsley is obtainable.'
'In addition to the leaves, the stems are also dried and powdered, both as a culinary colouring and for dyeingg purposes. There is a market for the seeds to supply nurserymen, etc., and the roots of the turnip-rooted variety are used as a vegetable and flavouring.'
'Medicinally, the two-year-old roots are employed, also the leaves, dried, for making Parsley Tea, and the seeds, for the extraction of an oil called Apiol, which is of considerable curative value.'
'Preparations and Dosages: Fluid extract root, ½ to 1 drachm. Fluid extract seeds, ½ to 1 drachm. Apiol (oil), 5 to 15 drops in capsule.'
The 1997 Commission E on Phytotherapy and Herbal Substances of the German Federal Institute for Drugs recommends 'Parsley, consisting of the fresh or dried plant [and] Parsley root, consisting of the dried root' for 'flushing out the efferent urinary tract in disorders of the same and in prevention and treatment of kidney gravel.'
'Contraindications: Pregnancy; inflammatory kidney conditions. Precautions: Irrigation therapy (flushing out treatment) should not be carried out in the case of edema caused by impaired heart or kidney function. Side Effects: Occasional allergic skin or mucous membrane reactions have been reported.'
'Daily dose: 6 g of the prepared drug. Mode of Administration: The crushed drug for infusions as well as other galenical preparations with a comparably small proportion of essential oil to be taken orally.'
King's 1898 Dispensatory: 'Diuretic, relieving urinary irritation. Very useful in dropsy, especially that following scarlatina, and other exanthematous diseases. Also used in retention of urine, strangury, and gonorrhoea.'
'Parsley seeds have a powerful odor, somewhat like that of turpentine, and a spicy, pungent taste, and have been used as a carminative, and for the same purpose as the root.... The oil is efficient as a diuretic, in doses of 3 or 4 drops a day; dose of the infusion, 2 to 4 fluid ounces, 3 or 4 times a day.'
American Materia Medica, 1919 (Ellingwood): 'An infusion of parsley is beneficial when, with nephritis or cystitis, the specific gravity of the urine is high, and the urination painful and irritating to the mucous membranes. It is useful in gonorrhea and strangury, with great irritation of the parts, with heat, or a scalding sensation on passage of urine, and can be given during the inflammatory stage. It has also been given in dropsy with good results.'
'Apiol [the essential oil] is a specific in amenorrhea. Five or six minims in a capsule, three times daily, for six or eight days before the menstrual epoch will restore the flow in many stubborn cases. It has no marked abortive influence. In persistent dysmenorrhea it has cured many cases intractable to other agents.'
The essential oil, because of its toxicity, should not be used in isolation, but as a natural constituent of the whole herb infusion.
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