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Even though the nutritional value of asparagus is relatively low, a well-prepared and delicious asparagus dish certainly won’t do any harm. Once you have learned about the healing effects of asparagus, you would literally put yourself into it.

One of the most widespread lore about this plant is its stimulating effect on urinary activity and the strange odor of urine after the intake of asparagus. A purification cure with asparagus is supposed to be a culinary highlight.

Even Hippocrates wrote in 460 before Christ about the healing capacity of asparagus. Not only its rhizomes, but also its leaves are said to have medicinal effects. People of the Middle Ages took parts of the roots, the shoot, but also the leaves, dipped them into wine, and ate them. It’s assumedly a delicious combination, which could not be outdone and increased the personal well-being.

Young asparagus shoots dipped into wine and eaten in sufficient amounts, is supposedly providing a remedy for patients suffering from jaundice and clogged kidneys. By and large, asparagus is associated with a high cleaning effect on blood.

Parts of the root or asparagus leaves dipped into wine and subsequently wrapped around an inflamed tooth is said to provide a quick and lasting pain relief.

The eating of large amounts of asparagus increases the sexual desire of men. Buds sprouting from the rhizome, supposedly provide a good contraceptive when put around the neck like an amulet. This is exactly a very good account for the extraordinary fertility in asparagus-growing communities, such as Walbeck, where the birth rate is significantly rising 9 months after the harvesting period, that is, from January to March. No asparagus farmer would ever let his wife put on such an amulet made of the “white gold.” Rather, he himself will have his wife pamper him with delicious and large enough portions of asparagus.