Cilantro is mainly used for sweating, relieving symptoms, eliminating food, regulating qi and penetrating rashes. Clinically, it is a therapeutic aid for spleen and stomach disharmony, loss of appetite, nausea, and colds.
Generally speaking, when people are cooking, adding a little cilantro can eliminate the fishy odor of fish and meat, and achieve the effect of helping food and waking up the spleen. It is also rumored that stewing cilantro with rock sugar can be used to treat hoarseness. According to traditional Chinese medicine, only when the lungs are full of vital energy and the voice is clear and bright. Therefore, the use of cilantro, which is able to express and promote the lungs, together with rock sugar, which is able to moisturize the dryness and promote the production of fluids, can really help to improve the hoarseness of the voice.
It is worth mentioning that if you have a slight headache, nausea, or loss of appetite because of a summer cold or because you have been in a cold room for a long time, you can take cilantro, green onion, and rock sugar stewed in hot water to relieve the pain.
Also known as caraway, coriander, caraway, coriander, star of heaven, garden coriander, hulai.
Cilantro was also introduced by Zhang Qian during his mission to the West during the Western Han Dynasty. Its young stems and fresh leaves have a special flavor, often used as a garnish for dishes, to enhance the flavor of the product, is one of the best vegetables that people like to eat.
Cilantro belongs to the umbrella family, annual biennial vegetables. Native to the Mediterranean coast, distributed throughout China, with the most northern China, all seasons are cultivated.
The main root of cilantro is thin, usually fusiform, and the stem is erect, thinly ribbed, and longer; the petiole is shorter, and the leaves are fan-shaped and green.
The quality of its color green, strong aroma, crisp texture, no yellow leaves, rotten leaves is good.
Nutritional analysis
Cilantro contains many volatile oils, and its special aroma is the volatile oils emitted. It can get rid of the fishy taste of meat, so in some dishes with some cilantro, that can play the unique effect of eliminating fishy, increasing flavor. Cilantro extract has significant sweating and clearing heat through the rash function, its special flavor can stimulate the secretion of sweat glands, prompting the body sweating, through the rash. Another and stomach regulating effect, is because of cilantro pungent ascending scattered, can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, has the effect of appetizing and waking up the spleen.
The whole herb contains decanal (decanal), nonanal (nonanal), linalool (linalool) and vitamin C. The seeds contain volatile oils, sugars and nitrogen compounds. The main components of the volatile oil are d-linalool, dipentene (d-limonene) and flavonoid glycosides.
Related People
General public can eat.
1. Those who suffer from wind-cold exopathogens, prolapse and loss of appetite, and children with measles are especially suitable;
2. But those who suffer from bad breath, halitosis, severe dental caries, stomach ulcers, and sores should eat less cilantro; in addition to cilantro's warm nature, it is not suitable for those whose measles have been translucent or who have not yet been translucent but are hot and congested.
Food Compatibility
Taking tonic and Chinese medicine atractylodes macrocephala, danpi, should not take cilantro, so as not to reduce the efficacy of tonic.
Preparation guide
1. Cilantro is an important aromatic parsley, refreshing appetizing, making soup can be added.
2. Do not consume rotting, yellowed cilantro as it is no longer aromatic, has none of the above effects and may produce toxins.
Cooking use: as an edible spice. Fresh leaves crushed, for the increase in flavor and beauty of the seasoning, commonly used in Chinese cuisine, can also be used as gazpacho, noodles and soups and seasoning and correcting the smell of fish. Seed powder for Europeans commonly used seasoning, is "curry powder" one of the raw materials.
Therapeutic effects
Cilantro is pungent, warm, belonging to the lungs, spleen meridian;
has the effect of sweating through the rash, eliminating food and gas, awakening the spleen and the effect of the middle;
The main treatment of measles in the early stage, the transmission is not smooth and food stagnation, gastric appetite, demodicosis, etc..