Suppression
Angelica
Category: Food
Type
Voluntary
Introduction and description
Angelica is a biennial or perennial herb with about 60 species. The species, as a whole, has many uses:
- Flavouring agent – the roots and seeds have been used to flavor gin and it is used to flavour liqueurs such as Chartreuse
- Cake Decoration - green crystallized strips of young angelica stems and midribs
- Food –the roots are eaten; A. lucida is used as a wild version of celery;
- Medicine – the stalks are sometimes used as medicine; A. atropurpurea was used by Missouri tribes for colds and respiratory ailments.
In this context however I want to concentrate on one species within this broader family.
Angelica archangelica, commonly known as Garden Angelica, Holy Ghost, Wild Celery, and Norwegian angelica, is a biennial plant from the Apiaceae family, a subspecies of which is cultivated for its sweetly scented edible stems and roots. And scientists have found that if it is combined with other Ferulic acid containing plants it helps those with Dementia and Alzheimers. One of the reasons it can do this is because Ferulic acid is an anti-oxidant, but it also appears to be a chelation agent which means it may be able to get rid of various toxins in our bodies.
Ferulic acid is a type of organic compound. Its name comes from the word Ferula, referring to the giant fennel.
Background
Like several other species in Apiaceae, edible Angelica is similar to several poisonous species (Conium, Heracleum, and others), and should not be consumed unless it has been identified with absolute certainty.
A. sylvestris is eaten by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Bordered Pug, Grey Pug, Lime-speck Pug and the V-Pug., which is an indicator that it contains toxins. Use angelica to decorate a cake, enjoy a glass of Chartreuse, but be very careful about identification in the wild.
Method
If you now turn to the section on Ferulic acid, you will see a long list of foods that contain it. If the objective is to chelate yourself of toxins, what better way than to combine the ingredients. Think of the wonderful concoctions you could conjure up here with this list of ingredients.
Angelica buns made with flax seeds and whole oats [with eggs and maybe ground almonds and honey] decorated with angelica and icing. Chartreuse cake. White bean and angelica salad with spring onions. Sweet corn and angelica salad with an asafoetida and popped mustard seed dressing.
Your granny will love it.
How it works
It appears to help healing- see the observations.
It is worth adding that this group of plants has been cited in some less than reliable New Age guides to shamanism, as having 'hallucinogenic properties'. This is incorrect. There is only one way that you could get a hallucination from angelica and that is by misidentification with one of the poisonous plants that look like it.
Advantages
- Tasty
- Inexpensive
- Appears to be very effective in healing
Disadvantages
The main problem is that the research is not complete.
The scientists have only made the link so far with dementia, which is good, but in a true cause based approach one would work back and say - yes but what caused the dementia in the first place? Clearly if it was caused by toxins or bacteria or viruses other than those helped by angelica and ferulic acid, nothing would happen, no health benefits would accrue. Furthermore, there is the need to know what exactly it does chelate. If it also chelates iron, zinc, manganese, copper and so on you may be losing essential minerals.
There again, if it chelates iron and the old people's home helpers are overdosing the old people on iron supplements, you may have the reason the angelica works. Rather ironic, n'est ce pas?
Remember a little angelica on a cake or in a salad is not an overdose, as such the risks in eating it are low.
Related observations
Healing observations
- Angelica - The Healing power of herbs – Ceres Esplan 019720
- Angelica and dementia 005403
- Culpepper's Complete Herbal on Butterbur 021411
- Data mining analysis of professor Li Fa-zhi AIDS herpes zoster medical record 017908
- Dr Duke's list of aluminium chelating plants 017803
- Dr Duke's list of Chemicals in Plants with Antipsoriatic Activity 019352
- Dr Duke's list of medicinal plants with multiple chemical analgesic activity 017960
- Dr Duke's list of Medicinal plants with Tranquilizer activity 018139
- Dr Duke's list of Plants containing Safrole 018559
- Dr Duke's list of Plants containing SELENIUM 020550
- Dr Duke's list of plants for Superactivity Arteriosclerosis/Atherosclerosis 017744
- Dr Duke's list of plants having chemicals with vasodilatory activity 017836
- Dr Duke's list of plants to help with Crohn's disease 017765
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antiaflatoxin Activity 018393
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antialcoholic Activity 018406
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antialopecic Activity 018420
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antianemic activity 018408
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antianorectic activity 018409
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antiarrhythmic activity 018344
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antiburn activity 018359
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Anticervicaldysplasic activity 018364
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Anticfs activity 018365
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Anticold activity 018430
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Anticrohn's activity 018435
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antidote (Aluminum) Activity 018326
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antidote (Cadmium) Activity 018329
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antidote (Lead) activity 018377
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antidote (Mercury) activity 018376
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antipneumonic Activity 018416
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antipsoriatic Activity 018422
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antirhinoviral activity 018438
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antischizophrenic Activity 018433
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antitubercular activity 018399
- Dr Duke's list of plants with hemopoietic effects - 2 All plants with activity 012485
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Metal chelating ability from FERULIC ACID - PART 1 018253
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Myorelaxant Activity 019681
- Dr Duke's plants for counteracting pesticides 010313
- Dr Duke's Plants with Antiplatelet activity 017519
- Dr Duke’s list of the top 40 plants with Antimigraine activity 021412
- Extracts from peppermint leaves, lemon balm leaves and in particular angelica roots mimic the pro-secretory action of the herbal preparation STW 5 in the human intestine 020212
- Foods to help with Benzopyrene 006913
- Mining analysis on composition and medication of menstruation prescriptions in Fu Qingzhu's Obstetrics and Gynecology 019433
- Mrs Grieve on Angelica 020900
- Nephroprotective effects of ferulic acid, Z-ligustilide and E-ligustilide isolated from Angelica sinensis against cisplatin toxicity in vitro 017776
- Scientific basis of botanical medicine as alternative remedies for rheumatoid arthritis 016295
- Tree, Isabella - Wilding - The healing potential of meadowland 029102