The Benefits and Uses of Vietnamese Coriander
Not many people are aware that Vietnamese coriander flowers and fruits annually on plants that aren’t frequently cut or harvested. Its branches and leaves are both common veggies and valuable herbs. Here’s why you might want it in your home.
Medicinal Properties According to Oriental Medicine
Vietnamese coriander has a spicy, hot flavor, a fragrant smell, and warm properties. It can dispel cold, boost intelligence, improve eyesight, aid digestion, and disinfect. Eating it raw warms the stomach, helps with digestion, disinfects, and drives away cold. It also brightens eyes, sharpens the mind, and strengthens tendons and bones.
Home Remedies with Vietnamese Coriander
- Bloody stomach, poor digestion: Take a handful, wash, crush, squeeze the juice, and drink. Rub the pulp on the stomach (near the navel).
- Summer heatstroke: Crush fresh coriander, squeeze juice, boil, and drink.
- Poor appetite: Use it as a spice or boil 10 – 20g of the whole plant and drink after meals.
- Stomachache, cold stomach, vomiting, heatstroke, thirst: Drink 25 – 30 ml of fresh red – stemmed coriander juice, twice a day.
- Ringworm, scabies, worms: Soak the whole plant in alcohol and apply the alcohol, or crush and apply the residue.
- Sudden severe heart pain: Boil 50g of the root, add a cup of alcohol, and drink a cup each time.
- Paralysis, bruises, swelling, pain: Crush fresh coriander, mix with camphor or camphor oil, and rub or bandage on the affected areas.
- Flu: Crush a handful of coriander and 3 slices of raw ginger, squeeze the juice to drink. Or boil a mix of 20g coriander, 20g perilla, 16g Vietnamese balm, 16g Chinese skullcap, 10g Chinese chuanxiong, 10g white peony, and 10g Chinese clematis.
- Snakebite: Crush a handful, squeeze the juice for the victim to drink, and apply the pulp to the wound.
- Foot problems: Crush and apply to the injured area or squeeze juice and apply, twice a day (keep the wound dry).
Caution
Vietnamese coriander isn’t poisonous, but overeating it can be harmful. Oriental medicine doctors say excessive consumption can cause heat and chills, reduce energy, damage the marrow, and weaken sexual function.
