'Provoke urine, stir up lust and desire of copulation, comfort the heart and are good for old people, help pleuresies and pricking in the sides'.

Culpeper, Nicholas. (1650). A Physical Directory . London, Peter Cole. p.24

From the seed packet of our supplier: "Noted in "Fromond" Plant List (circa 1440). Chervil. "...is held to be one of the pot-herbes, it is pleasant to the stomach and taste... It is used very much among the Dutch people in a kind of hotch-pot which they do eat, called Warmus. The leaves of sweet Chervil are exceedingly good, wholesome, and pleasant, among other salad herbs, giving the taste of Anise seed unto the rest."

Cultivated since time of Pliny, leaves aniseed flavour for seasoning and salads, in' fines-herbes '(with parsley & chives) for omelettes etc.

Mabberley, D.J. (1997) The Plant Book, ed.2, Cambridge University Press p.44

Asia-Temperate, Caucasus, Transcaucasus

Asia-Temperate, Middle Asia, Kyrgyzstan

Asia-Temperate, Middle Asia, Uzbekistan

Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Cyprus

Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Iran

Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Iraq

Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Turkey

Europe, Eastern Europe

Europe, Middle Europe

Europe, Southeastern Europe

Europe, Southwestern Europe, France