Health benefits of coriander
Coriander is a familiar spice that helps to improve appetite, improve digestion, and detoxify fishy substances. It can be eaten raw or cooked.
Coriander has many health benefits.
Coriander is an annual, smooth, single-stemmed herb with branches at the top. The leaves are rosette-shaped at the base, thin, lanceolate, tapering at the base, with serrated edges and slightly spiny teeth.
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Coriander has many health benefits. |
According to Traditional Medicine, coriander has a spicy taste, warm properties, and a pungent aroma. It is effective in expelling cold evils, treating bad breath, eliminating damp heat, strengthening the spleen and stomach, clearing impurities, relieving bloating, and stimulating digestion.
Treat flu
Use 40g of eryngium, 10g of fresh ginger, 20g of mugwort and 20g of chrysanthemum each. Chop all of them, crush the ginger, boil with 400ml of water until 150ml remains, pour out, drink hot, twice a day. After drinking, lie in a warm blanket to sweat, then dry your body and you will feel more comfortable.
Treats runny nose and mild fever due to cold
Take 20g of eryngium foetidum, wash and cut into pieces, 30g of minced beef, and a few slices of fresh ginger. Cook with 400ml of water. Eat this dish hot. Add a little pepper when eating. After eating, cover yourself with a blanket to sweat and you will be cured.
Treat digestive disorders
1 - 2 tablespoons of coriander juice is an extremely effective drink to treat digestive disorders such as indigestion, vomiting, dysentery, hepatitis and colitis.
Treat bad breath
Take a handful of coriander, wash it, boil it, add a few grains of salt, stir it to dissolve, use it to gargle and rinse your mouth many times a day. After about 5-6 days, your mouth will smell less bad.
Treat stomachache, diarrhea
20g coriander leaves; 12g each of lemongrass, perilla leaves, and raw ginger, boil with water and drink during the day.
Treatment of swelling and pain from falls
Crush 15g of coriander leaves, squeeze to get the juice, mix with white wine and drink. Apply the pulp on the wound.
Treatment of bedwetting in children
Take 20g of coriander, Vietnamese coriander, and Indian pennywort, along with 10g of small-leafed milkweed, finely chopped and dried. Put all in a pot, add 500ml of water, boil down to 150ml, drink after dinner. Use for about 5-10 days. Can repeat the treatment regimen.
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