The Healing power of Celery

The ancient Greeks dedicated celery to Hades, the god of the underworld. They ate it at funerlla meals, strewed it on graves and made it into wreaths for the dead. The British Pharmacopaea records that celery seed is anti-rheumatic, sedative and an urinary antiseptic. It is reccomended for rheumatism, arthritis, gout and inflammation of the urinary tract.

Angela surrounded by Devon moss

This year I had plans to escape the English winter, well-laid, careful, detailed plans, which included flying to Tenerife, catching a boat to the beautiful, green Canary island, La Palma, travelling by bus across the steep hilly island and meeting my friend, Frohmut, who would take me to one of her caves, where I would dwell as a troglodyte, far from the British permagrey skies, tilling her stony soil, weeding her veg patch and pruning her tangerine trees, spending the evenings by a nice fire in her cave, catching up on all the years since we last spent time in this place.

But it was not to be. Spain's decision to ban all Brits scuppered my plans.

So instead I am admiring the beautiful green moss in Devon. 

Healing plants this time of the year are few and far between, but I will go and look for some tomorrow.