Coriander

CoriandrumsativumL. (Chinese parsley, cilantro)

This crop is grown in many countries of the world, and it has long become a familiar spicy plant for us. In the Ancient world, coriander was treated with trepidation; it is mentioned in the Old Testament and in ancient oriental books. Images of coriander as a particularly revered ritual plant were made in Egypt in the 3rd millennium BC. e. Egyptian healers prescribed coriander for intestinal and liver diseases. The ancient Greeks and Romans used it for sacrificial offerings and as an antiscorbutic.

Galen, Dioscorides, Rufus and Archogenes often used coriander seeds and leaves in their medical practice. The famous Avicenna wrote: “Coriander astringents and causes numbness, and its squeezed juice with milk soothes any throbbing pain. Coriander helps with hot heart problems; it is slowly digested, but calms a heated stomach. In general, you should not abuse this medicine. Abuse causes disorder of the mind." And in moderate dosage, coriander, according to Avicenna, “induces sleep and stops nosebleeds, prevents vomiting, and soothes sour belching after eating.” It is no coincidence that Galen said about coriander: “Its power is complex...” In the medieval poem “On the Properties of Herbs” we read: ... usually drives out worms and worms from the stomach if it is drunk mashed with wine or also tasted with vinegar together . When honey and coriander are mixed with dried vines and grated on top, they drive away various swellings. But for swollen testicles, the medicine is especially valuable. Its seed, they say, strengthens an upset stomach, if it is drunk frequently with water.

In Tibetan medicine, this plant is still included in potions for the treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. In modern medicine, coriander is included in laxative, antihemorrhoidal and choleretic tea.

Medicinal properties

1. Used in the treatment of colds, flu, bronchial and lung diseases. A good expectorant.
2. Stimulates appetite, improves digestion. A potent remedy for stomach cramps, flatulence, food poisoning, gastric and duodenal ulcers.
3. It has a choleretic effect in diseases of the liver and gall bladder.
4. It has a warming and analgesic effect in the treatment of arthritis and rheumatism.
5. Recommended for physical fatigue.
6. Effective against diphtheria.
7. Stimulates wound healing. Recommended as a highly effective remedy for burns.
8. Used for rheumatic heart pain.
9. In folk medicine, it is used for stomach diseases, hysteria, to stop uterine bleeding, to treat cracked nipples in nursing mothers, as an antiseptic, anticonvulsant, antihemorrhoidal, carminative, analgesic and sedative.
10. Improves memory, helps relieve fatigue, overcome anxiety, and relieve nervous tension.
11. Eliminates inflammatory processes of the skin, peeling. Regenerates and deodorizes the skin.

Dosage

Externally: 3-4 k. per 10 ml of vegetable oil.

Internally: 1 k. for 1 tsp. honey after meals 2 times a day.

Baths: 5-7 k.

Inhalations: 3 k.

Compresses: 6-7 k.

Enrichment of cosmetics: 5-6 k. per 10 g of base.

Contraindications. Individual intolerance, pregnancy.

Note. Strong oil. Do not exceed the dosage. It is not recommended to use after a heart attack or stroke, since coriander increases the prothrombin index.