Parsley is a magical vegetable. It involves three times more Vitamin C than an orange. It involves iron more than spinach. It involves a high amount of A and K Vitamins. Let’s look at the benefits of it and learn some cures which we can do with parsley.

Parsley is a source of vitamins. It increases body resistance. There are many health benefits of parsley beginning from preventing osteoporosis to controlling cancer, directing diabetes, curing rheumatoid arthritis. It helps to strengthen the immune system and solving problems like stomach cramps, indigestion.

Parsley is mostly used in Mediterranean and European cuisines. It is used in meals, garnitures, salads, and sandwiches. Parsley is a highly tropical vegetable. This means that it needs a high amount of moisture and lots of sunshine to grow up.

Parsley involves Vitamine A, K, C, and E, thiamine, Vitamine B6, Vitamine B12, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphor, potassium, zinc, and copper. The leaves of parsley involve energy, carbohydrate, fat, and protein.

The benefits of parsley:

Source of anti-oxidant: It involves anti-oxidants like lycopene, beta carotene, and alpha-carotene. It protects cells and free radical damages that are responsible for cardiovascular problems, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, many problems like eye problems.

Kidney Cleaner: Parsley is rich in vitamins and anti-oxidants. It is a natural kidney cleanser. It is used diuretically in the treatment of urinary tract infections, bladder infections, renal calculus, and bladder stone for many centuries.

Prevention of edema: The diuretic characteristics of parsley cures swelling, edema, and overhydration. A dessert spoon of parsley spoon cures your problems like swelling, edema, and overhydration.

Losing weight: Parsley has low calories and is rich in nutrition. It hastens metabolism. It cleans the kidney, liver, and excess water from the body. The metabolism works ın optimum level and this helps you in losing weight.

Anti-inflammatory effect: Parsley is used for toothache, bug bites, and dry skin. It reduces inflammation with its anti-inflammatory effect. This healing vegetable is also used for the treatment of wounds in the human body.

Skin Care: Parsley is rich in vitamin C and it is anti-oxidant. It produces collagen and it brightens your face. It also balances the production of oil so it is used for the treatment of acne.

Controls diabetes: Parsley decreases the blood sugar level and decreases insulıne resistance. It is proved that a person who consumes parsley for a month, decreases his/her blood sugar level.

Increases digestion: Parsley encourages digestion because of its enzymes and fiber contents. It helps to digest protein and fats in the body. It helps to clean the digestion system and helps to protect the health of the body.

Effective for rheumatoid arthritis: It is effective for rheumatoid arthritis. Vitamine C and betacarotene are effective for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. It helps to reduce pain. Parsley water or parsley tea should be consumed regularly to achieve good results.

Prevents and cures cancer: Parsley involves apigenin. Apigenin prevents the formation of cancer. It prevents the increase of cancer cells. It cures especially prostate and colon cancer.

Cures acid-reflux disorder: Parsley is used as natural medicine in the treatment of acid reflux disorder because it helps digestion. It is also good for indigestion. You should eat it after meals or you can consume it with your meal. If you prefer, you can drink parsley water after your meals.

Strengthens the immune system: Parsley involves vitamins, minerals, and anti-oxidants. It strengthens the immune system and it is used for the treatment of fever. It affects white blood cells directly. It is anti-bacterial and anti-fungal.

Painkiller: Parsley involves a high amount of Vitamin K, Vitamin C, and beta-carotene which cures bruises and wounds.

Cure for bruises: Crush fresh parsley leaves and apply it on the bruises. After a few minutes you will be relax.

Parsley also helps to reduce joint aches and tiredness. It has a strong anti-oxidant effect so it softens hard muscles. It is also used for people who have arthritis and joint problems. You can also use parsley water if you have a toothache.

Anemi treatment: Parsley involves high level of iron. It also involves Vitamin C and Vitamin C helps emulsion of iron. You can use parsley water or parsley tea if you do not want to use iron drugs.

Foul Breath: Chewing the leaves of parsley helps to fight with foul breath. It helps to clean your breath. It helps to clean your fresh with its fresh aroma and high amount of chlorophyll temporarily.

Hearth Health: Parsley involves a high amount of flavone anti-oxidants which decreases stress and increases cardiovascular health. This vegetable is also involved a high amount of Vitamin B and folic acid which prevents the thickening of the artery wall. On the other hand, it involves potassium which declines blood pressure. This helps to prevent heart diseases and paralysis.

Balances hormones: Parsley helps to develop the hormonal balance among women. It increases libido and hastens the secretion of the estrogen hormone.

It helps in the treatment of hormonal disorders like syndrome before the period and menopause. On the other hand, parsley tea reduces period cramps and pains.

Eye health: Parsley involves Vitamin A, carotenoid, and anti-oxidants like betacarotene. This protects eye health. It helps to protect the damages in the retina and prevents cataracts. The nutrients in parsley help to reduce eye inflation and dark circles under the eye.

Hair Care:

Cure: 1 soup spoon of parsley seed

1/2 glass of water

Mix water and parsley water. Make paste. Apply it to your head. Wait for 30 minutes and wash with warm water. This is used for head lice, dandruff, scalp irritation. On the other hand, it strengthens damaged hair. It stops hair loss. It protects hair from free radical damages and increases the production of keratine and collagen. And also, parsley involves a high amount of copper. This is a factor to protect the hair color.

But, you should be careful about consuming a high amount of parsley because it has side effects:

• If you are pregnant or in the breastfeeding period, do not consume too much parsley because it may cause uterus contraction during the pregnancy.
• It involves a high amount of oxalate so, if you have a kidney stone or if you are gouty do not eat it too much.
• It may make your skin more sensitive and rash may occur.

Otherwise, parsley is a very useful and healthy vegetable that you should add to your diet.

Resource: The Benefits of Parsley, Haberturk

ETERNAL TREE: OLIVE TREE

The olive tree symbolizes an aliveness and long life. The olive branch is a symbol of peace. An olive tree can live for hundreds of years and it is perrenial. Every part of it, from its vegetable to its leave, is very useful for health. There are many benefits of it from heart health to face beauty.

Generally, the olive tree is known for its vegetable and oil. Olive which is obtained from delicious olives is very beneficial for heart and vein health. It involves poly and monounsaturated fatty acids that protect us from heart and vein disease. The human body cannot synthesize polyunsaturated oils. We should take them outside. Olive oil is a rich source of unsaturated oils. This oil lowers LDL cholesterol, increases HDL cholesterol. It prevents the oxidation of that can occur on the vein wall. It is also proved by lots of researches that it lowers high blood pressure. Olive oil is an anti-oxidant and it protects the body from damages. It is shown that it has a protective effect against diabetics. Also, it is used for wounds, burns, allergy, and bug bites.

Olive oil decreases the risk of having heart attacks and protects against Alzheimer’s because of its contents. It is proved that in societies that consume olive oil have a low rate of being cancer. And also the effects of olive leaves are proved by modern medicine. Olive leaves involve ‘oleuropein’ which kills germs. It fights against viruses, bacterias, and fungus. Olive oil supports the immune system fights against infections. It is very useful for people who have chronic diseases.

Oleuropein repairs the free oxygen radicals that are harmful to our bodies. It renews the cells. Olive leaves are very beneficial on your skin. It is used for the treatment of skin infections because of its effect on killing germs. It also cures pimple, blain, and varicosis. Oleuropein widens blood veins and it increases the skin’s flushing. This has a treatment effect on the skin. In this way, the wounds, burns, pimples, and wrinkles are cured. It is also used for allergy. It is proved by medical researches that it has an anti-allergic effect. It moisturizes the skin. It is proved by medical researches that olive leaves balance the cholesterol, lowers high blood pressure and blood sugar. For diabetes, olive leaves balance blood sugar. It is very effective so you should arrange the doses of your medicines if you use olive leaves.

Tea for Diabetes and metabolic sendrome:

1 dessert spoon of olive leaves

1 quill

1 dessert spoon of green tea

250cc boiling water

Put olive leaves, quill, and green tea in a glass cup. Add boiling water to it. Brew it for 10 minutes. You can drink 3-4 cups of this tea in a day. If you have high blood pressure, do not use green tea very much. It increases your blood pressure and heartthrob.

The Benefits of Olive:

• It lowers the cholesteol in the blood.

• It controls blood pressure

• It is source of fiber

• It is rich from Vitamine E

• It protects the cells. It is anti-oxidant.

• It protects brain health.

• It decreases the risk of having alzeimer

• It decreases the cholesterol and prevents the risk of having heart diseases.

Olive involves phenolic compounds. This is used in the treatment and prevention of different types of cancer diseases.

Olive is very important for eye health. Vitamine A is important for eye health. A glass of black olive meets 10% of daily recommended Vitamine A. Olive is very good for cataract.

It helps to cure inflammation in your body.

It prevents osteoporosis. The researches proved that olive prevents the bone loss in old age. It plays vital role in the formation and protection of bones.

Olives are fermented foods. They are prebiotics. This means they are intensive friendly. It also cures inflammation in the stomach.

It strengthens the immune system.

It balances the blood platelet cells to help blood clotting.

It prevents the fatty liver syndrome.

It is used not only for skin beauty but also it is used for hair beauty. It gives good results especially against scurf and loss of gloss.

If you eat 5 olives before the meals, it reduces the stomach ache.

It is protectice against colon cancer.

It eases the digestion.

It is a powerful anti-oxidant. It protects the body against poisoning.

It is hematinic.

Olive oil renews the organs of the body. It renews the cells. It is anti aging.

It cleans the liver.

Drink a soup spoon of olive oil evety morning for your stomach and digestion health.

It strengthens the immune system.

Olive oil is used for hair health also. Apply olive oil on your hair and wait for 45 minutes. Wash with warm water. You will have abundant and shiny hair.

If you use a drop of olive oil as a tonic on your face before you go to bed, you will have natural peeling. It meets the moisture need of the body. It helps to bowdlerize from dead cells of the body. It is anti-aging.

Natural Peeling:

2 soup spoons of olive oil

1 dessert spoon of lemon

Mix lemon and olive oil. Apply it on your face. It fights with black spots and prevents the formation of pimples.

Olive is one of the healthiest food in the world with its oil, leaves, and seeds. Always make it available in your meals. It is a miracle for your health. Use it and enjoy a healthy life with your family.

Source: Dr. Aktaş, Ümit: Recuperator Vegetables, Hayykitap, İstanbul (2014)

Nowadays alternative medicine is widespread in the lives of people. Experts are mentioning that precious and semi-precious stones have important effects on the physical and mental health of people. I will continue to inform you about healing stones in this article. Here are some healing stones;

AZURITE:

Hardness degree: 3,5-4

Chakra: Forehead

The benefits of Azurite:

• Azurite is so beneficial for eye ache and in the resting of eyes. You can put azurite on your eyes and rest for a while in order to eliminate tiredness of eyes and dazzling.
• It provides a healthy growth of the embryo.
• It cures spleen diseases.
• It cures thyroid diseases.
• It is nonsuppurative
• It eliminates the aches of arthritis and joint diseases.
• It helps to mental and emotional wakefulness.
• It regulates all chakras.
• It gives health to the nervous system and bones of the backbone.
• It is good for skin diseases.
• It cures cyst and tumor.
• It is used on people who have teak on their faces.
• It is a fever reducer.
• It is healing atone for panic-attack.
• It cures rheumatism if it is used with malachite.
• For a physical benefit, you should keep it on your body, and for the mental benefit, you should put it in a place that you can always see it.

The Care of Azurite:

You should not use water in the care of azurite. Put some hematites in a glass bowl and put the azurite in it. Leave a night and the next morning take it out. Its energy is very high so you do not need to charge it. Repeat this once a week. And commit it to the ground once a month. Leave it a night and in the morning take it out.

CHEROIDE:

Hardness degree: 7

The benefits of Cheroide:

• It is effective for headaches and hearing problems.
• It regulates the nervous system. It gives calmness.
• It is effective for insomnia.
• It strengthens the immune system.
• It balances heart and mental relation
• It increases self-confidence.
• It saves people from material and spiritual dependency.
• If you have fears, use it with amethyst.
• It has treatment energy for physical and mental problems.
• It increases harmony in people’s lives.
• It regulates blood pressure.
• It helps to cure diseases because it changes negative energy to positive energy in the body.
• It has healing energy for the eyes, liver, pancreas, and heart.
• It helps to quit dependency on alcohol.
• It is anti-relief.
• It cleans the body.
• It cures the damages on the liver that is the result of alcohol.
• It is useful for obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The care of Cheroide:

Commit it to the ground once a week. The next morning take it out. After a month, repeat this every month.

CHIASTOLITE:

Hardness degree: 6,5-7,5

The benefits of Chiastolite:

• Chiastolite is a very powerful protective stone.
• In the past, it is believed that it protects people from badness.
• It gives calm psychology to people.
• It reduces fever. It helps to cure diseases like rheumatism, gout.
• It can be used in the treatment of paralysis.
• It balances blood pressure.
• It strengthens the nervous system.
• It increases breast milk
• It symbolizes reborn
• It helps to get rid of negative feelings.
• It helps to restore the DNA chromosome.

BULL QUARTZ:

Hardness degree: 7

Chackra: Root

The benefits of Bull Quartz:

• It is a stone of bones and joints
• In every kind of aches, place the bull quartz on aching part of your body, wait for 15-20 minutes. Your ache will be good.
• It helps to cure myomas in the uterus.
• It is used during pregnancy.
• Put the bull quartz in a glass of water and in the next morning drink it. Do this for a long time, it is good for reproductivity.
• It is used in the treatment of inflammation of the prostate.
• It is go0od for thyroid glands
• It helps to produce blood.
• It cleans all the organs and makes them functional.
• It balances all the glands.
• It is used it the treatment of rheumatism
• The treatment water that is made from bull quartz cleans the kidney.
• It reduces stress.
• It is effective for a panic attack.
• It prevents nightmares.

In this article, I gave some information about azurite, cheroide, chiastolite, and bull quartz. You will find the benefits and the care of these healing stones. I will continue to write articles about the healing stones in the next articles.

Reference: Belgin Dal: The Healing Stones, Aurum Edition,İstanbul,2015.