Cilantro is the root of coriander in the umbelliferae family. Native to the Middle East, now cultivated throughout China.

Coriander contains protein, fat, crude fiber, niacin, carotene, oleic acid, flavonoid glycosides, mannitol, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other components.

Cilantro is an aromatic appetizer, often used as a flavor, can also be stir-fried, cold.

Chinese medicine believes that cilantro has the effect of eliminating food and gas, waking up the spleen and adjusting the middle, aphrodisiac effect.

Bad breath, halitosis, gastric ulcers, cancer, chronic skin diseases and eye disease patients should not eat cilantro. The normal body should not be eaten. Gua sha rash has been through, or although not through and heat toxicity congestion, not wind-cold outside the bundle of people avoid eating.

Medicine Compendium: "Eating more faint eyes, consume." Hua Tuo to go, suffering from breath odor, ...... food exacerbated, abdominal suffering from evil qi Mi shall not eat, food hair hangover disease, gold sores especially avoid." Food Therapy Materia Medica: "long cold people eat weak feet. Do not eat for a long time, this is smoked vegetables, damage to the spirit." The Classic of Materia Medica: "It is not suitable for people with gas deficiency. Rash and pox out of the unpleasant, non-wind-cold external invasion and obscenity of the offending gas, should not be used."

Cilantro and cucumber should not be eaten with cucumber contains vitamin C decomposition enzyme, can destroy the vitamin C contained in other foods, and cilantro for the high vitamin C-containing food, if it and cucumber at the same time, it will make cilantro contained in vitamin C is destroyed, lose the original nutritional value.

Coriander and animal liver should not be eaten together cilantro is rich in vitamin C, and animal liver is rich in copper, iron and other ions, if the animal liver and vitamin C content of cilantro at the same time to eat, copper, iron and other ions are very easy to make the cilantro in the oxidation of vitamin C, so as to lose the original effect.