Notes: Used to be eaten ,like celery, in the middle ages or candied in the same manner as Angelica. It can be used as a tea, but the summer cordial called ‘Lovage’ is not prepared from this plant.

Oakeley, Dr. H. F. . (2013). The Gardens of the Pharmacopoeia Londinensis. Link

Contains 8-methoxy-psoralen, a furocoumarin, which is genotoxic and possibly carcinogenic. Produced adenomas and adenocrciomas of the kidney, and adenocarcinomas of the Zymbal gland.

van den Berg, S.J.P.L., Restani, et al., P.. (2011). Levels of Genotoxic and Carcinogenic Compounds in Plant Food Supplements and Associated Risk Assessment. Food and Nutrition Science 2: 989-1010. Link

May cause skin allergies.

Professor Anthony Dayan, 2022

Traditional Herbal Medicine Registration (THMR).

Culpeper: under ‘Herbs’ he writes: ‘Livisticum. Lovage. Clears the sight, takes away redness and freckles from the face.’ Under ‘Roots’: ‘Levistici. Of Lovage. ... exceeding good for any diseases coming of wind.’

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

Only one Diptera miner, the tephritid Euleia heraclei, is recorded on Levisticum in Britain. Time of year - mines: April, June-August, October-November. Time of year - adults: May-August.

Pitkin B., Ellis W., Plant C., Edmunds R. The Leaf & Stem Mines of British Flies & Other Insects www.ukflymines.co.uk

Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Iran

Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Afghanistan