Coriander is also known as yan sui, hu sui, sky stars, is the root of coriander, an annual herb of the umbelliferous family. Native to the Mediterranean coast and fond of growing in shady places, Zhang Qian (2025-2025) brought the seeds to China from the western regions of Central Asia during the Han Dynasty. It used widely in winter dishes, coriander mutton soup, coriander beef soup, delicious, or tonic, dispelling cold wind.
Modern research found that the reason why coriander is fragrant, get the good name of coriander, mainly because it contains volatile oil and volatile flavor substances. Coriander is rich in nutrition. It contains vitamin C, carotene, vitamin b1, b2 and other minerals, such as calcium, iron, phosphorus, and magnesium. Coriander also contains potassium malate, protein, sugar and so on.
✵Vitamin C: coriander is rich in vitamin C and potassium and other substances, have the effect of lowering blood lipids, dilating blood vessels, increasing coronary blood flow, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, softening blood vessels and so on, and have certain effect on preventing atherosclerosis and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. The amount of vitamin C contained in coriander is much higher than that of ordinary vegetables. Eat 7 to 10 grams of coriander leaves meet the vitamin C needs of a common person.
✵Carotene: coriander contains a lot of carotene, it can effectively protect the eye, respiratory tract, urinary tract and gastrointestinal tract mucosa, prevent bacterial and viral infection, thereby improving the immune capacity of the human body. The carotene contained in coriander is 10 times higher than tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, etc.
✵ Volatile oil: coriander contains mannitol, linalool, and other volatile oil substances, can increase saliva secretion, accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, promote appetite. At the same time, add some coriander in some dishes, can remove the fishy smell, increase the taste of the unique effect.
✵Vitamin A: the vitamin A and vitamin C in coriander can regulate the synthesis of light-sensitive substances in the retina, relieve eye fatigue, and prevent dry eye diseases and night blindness.
✵Calcium: calcium maintain health of teeth and bone, remove fidgety mood, promote adolescent bone development, prevent the elderly bone thinning.
✵Niacin: coriander contains niacin, which can resist pellagra, dilate blood vessels, promote blood circulation and lower blood pressure.
✵Vitamin B1: coriander contains vitamin B1, lack of vitamin B1 can cause a variety of nerve inflammation such as beriberi.
✵Vitamin B2: coriander contains vitamin B2, lack of vitamin B2 will appear angular stomatitis, lip inflammation, eye conjunctivitis, and scrotal inflammation.
✵Dietary fiber: the dietary fiber in coriander aids digestion and keeps the intestines healthy.
✵Estradiol: coriander not only contains plant protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, and a variety of vitamins, but also contains rich estradiol, estriol, both can regulate female sex hormone levels, promoting ovulation, therefore, coriander could be used in the treatment of ovulation disorders caused by infertility, good results have been achieved, the method is used the water decoction, 20 grams dry herb per day, or fresh 150 grams, or extract juice, daily dose of 60 ml, in the Traditional Chinese Medicine decoction.
✵Flavonoids: coriander contains flavonoids, vitamins, trace elements, and other substances, with anti-cancer, kidney care, hypoglycemic and other effects.
✵Minerals: there are many minerals in cilantro, which can supplement the trace elements needed by the body.
The effect and function of coriander.
✵Appetizers and waken the spleen, aid digestion: with the effect of harmonizing the stomach, because of coriander taste spicy, fragrant after eating, taste refreshing, can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis. The person of cold body constitution eats coriander appropriately to be able to alleviate the symptom such as stomach cold ache, food accumulation sluggish, indigestion.
✵Cure cold: the body is strong, constitution is good, occasionally cold person can use it to cure cold. Usable when the child catches a cold, because the body is affected, the vitamin C inside the white blood cell decreases sharply, and vitamin C can raise bactericidal ability. So, eating coriander at this time is also very helpful to fight childhood colds.
✵Dispel cold: spleen and stomach cold people eat moderate coriander can also play a warm effect on stomach cold, digestion, relief of stomachache, can be put in the porridge digestion and QI with orange peel, warm stomach cold with ginger.
✵Cure prolapse of anus, hemorrhoids swollen pain: coriander boil soup, with this soup aromatherapy, wash the affected area, can cure prolapse of anus, hemorrhoids swollen pain.
✵Help cure infantile rash acne: infantile give rash acne, can take coriander to make coriander wine to brush the skin, or water to decoct coriander, take advantage of hot fume nose, or dip in soup to brush a face to reach neck, can accelerate rash acne to send out, if already out, stop to use.
✵Lower blood pressure: coriander also has the effect of lowering blood pressure. It is reported that fresh coriander 10g, add kudzu root 10g and decoct in water for service, morning and evening, each time take 50ml, take 10 days for a course of treatment, has auxiliary effect for the treatment of hypertension.
✵Improve cool hands and feet: coriander also has the effect of promoting peripheral blood circulation, cold physical fitness, eat coriander can improve the symptoms of cool hands and feet.
✵Sweating and heat elimination: coriander extract has significant functions of sweating and heat elimination. Its special fragrance can stimulate the secretion of sweat glands and promote the body to sweat.
✵Enhance memory: coriander is suitable for health and memory loss.
✵Beauty: coriander has a beauty effect, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded "sunspot, wash with coriander soup daily."
✵Enhance efficacy: coriander can be mixed with other foods to enhance efficacy. If cuts coriander a segment to add the cold mix such as ripe oil sauce vinegar can invigorate the stomach to take food, be suitable for the patient with the disharmony of gastric QI, vomiting little food or boost appetite.
✵Pain relief and detoxification: coriander can cure tooth pain, coriander root can be used for bruise pain, hangover pain, foot pain. Coriander also can solve edible pork, wild mushroom poisoning.
✵Used for snakebite: coriander root smashed, take the juice and apply to the affected part, can be used for snake bite.
✵Eliminate the fishy smell: the smell of coriander can eliminate the fishy smell of meat, so add some coriander in some dishes, that can have the unique effect of removing the fishy smell, increase the taste. Soup with coriander can increase the scent of soup; Add coriander to the mix to enhance the flavor.
✵Value of coriander in Chinese medicine: Coriander leaves, roots, stems, seeds can be used as a medicine, as a cure medicine, has a long history. Traditional Chinese Medicine with whole grass as medicine, functional solution table, spread measles, internal administration has the effect of drive wind, stomach, and stimulation.
It is mainly used to treat measles, indigestion, colds, influenza, fever, headache, dysentery, blood, but also can treat hypertension, external analgesic effect, but also has detoxification to some food poisoning.
Daily food, it functions aid digestion, waken the spleen and harmonizes the middle, suitable for cold body constitution.
Food taboos of coriander.
Coriander can promote our digestion and increase appetite: coriander is a kind of spice vegetable that people often eat, have to stimulate appetite, promote digestion and other functions. According to Chinese Medicine records, coriander has the function of warming stomach. The person of cold body constitution eats coriander appropriately to be able to alleviate the symptom such as cold pain of the stomach, indigestion, measles. But the following people should avoid Coriander.
The person that suffers from cold easily, should avoid coriander, however: because this kind of person often suffer from QI deficiency of different degree, and coriander flavor scattered, can consume QI, lose spirit, cause or aggravate QI deficiency then, bring frequent cold.
People with QI deficiency should not eat coriander: although it is said that coriander is very fragrant, but also can be stomach building, but because coriander flavor spicy and dissipating, eat too much or long-term, will consume QI, damage the spirit, and the people with QI deficiency is weak, always no spirit, eat more coriander, will aggravate the disease, so should not eat more.
The person that often catches a cold cannot eat coriander: although coriander can cure a cold, that also is your peacetime occasionally catch a small cold, the person that catches a cold and eat coriander can cause a cold instead. Have halitosis, gastric ulcer case should not eat. Because coriander has warm heat, send the effect of sore, if had eaten, can cause your illness.
Postpartum or disease after the first recovery: postpartum, the disease after the first recovery of patients often have a certain degree of QI deficiency, so we should also avoid Coriander.
✵Notes for Coriander consumption:
Pig liver + coriander: the copper and iron ions in animal liver easily oxidize the vitamin C in coriander, causing the loss of its nutritional value.
Pork + Coriander: Coriander nature warm and spicy, will consume energy; The pork is greasy and helps the dampness and heat to produce phlegm. Therefore, they should not be eaten together.
Sweet pepper + coriander: the vitamin C decomposing enzyme contained in coriander will oxidize the vitamin C in sweet pepper, thus reducing the nutritional value.
✵Food that "goes" with Coriander:
Bean curd + coriander: coriander contains protein, adipose, mineral and a variety of vitamins, eat together with bean curd, can invigorate spleen and stomach, drive cold wind.
Mutton + coriander: mutton is good for QI and blood, strong kidney and Yang, so when eating mutton, put some coriander is very good. Coriander is an aphrodisiac, so it's very good to have it with your mutton.
✵How to eat coriander:
1. Coriander is an important spicy dish, which is refreshing and appetizing and can be added to the soup. Additional, coriander contains essential oil, flavor fierce, must not become juice alone drinkable, can mix become juice drinkable with other scanty fruit, but do not exceed 30 grams every time.
2. Should not eat decay, yellow coriander, because such coriander has no aroma, no effects mentioned above, and may produce toxins.
✵How to store Coriander:
Cut off the coriander root, choose yellow leaves, spread out for a day or two, dry and hang up in a cool ventilated place.
Or choose coriander with roots, remove the yellow leaves, wash the coriander one by one after hanging on a thin line to dry, and then put the coriander in the container store. Soak the coriander in warm water for a while before serving.
✵Preservation method:
1. Wash the parsley, cut it into suitable sizes, put it in a plastic bag and store it in the refrigerator. When used, remove without defrosting, the flavor will not deteriorate, and the coriander will not spoil.
Storage method of coriander:
2. Soak the coriander root in a small bowl of water and refrigerate. Change the water every 2 days to preserve the coriander for a long time.
3. Put the coriander into a plastic bag and put a small piece of radish (carrot or white radish) into the bag. Tie the bag tightly and put it into the refrigerator.
✵Drying method:
Wash the coriander with the root and the whole plant, add a little salt in the boiling water pot, and then add the coriander root into the pot and dip hot over half a minute, and then immersed the coriander all in water for 10 seconds.
Wait for coriander to turn green take out, after airing cool, hang in the shade with fine wire in a ventilated place, avoid sunshine by all means.
Dry and crisp after 3 ~ 4 days. Cut into small sections and store. When eating, use soft blisters as ingredients or put into the soup, can maintain the original flavor.
✵How to buy coriander: should choose the whole plant hypertrophy, dry and not touched with water, green leaves, with roots, the better.
✵ Recommended amount of coriander: 15 ~ 30 grams each time, and no yellow leaves, rotten leaves, do not eat rotting coriander, because such coriander has no aroma, and may produce toxins, cause food poisoning.
Coriander is also known as yan sui, hu sui, sky stars, is the root of coriander, an annual herb of the umbelliferous family. Native to the Mediterranean coast and fond of growing in shady places, Zhang Qian (2025-2025) brought the seeds to China from the western regions of Central Asia during the Han Dynasty. It used widely in winter dishes, coriander mutton soup, coriander beef soup, delicious, or tonic, dispelling cold wind.
Every 100 grams parsley, contained 90.5 g of water, protein 1.8 grams, 0.4 grams fat, ash 1.1 grams, 5 grams of carbohydrate, the crude fiber 1.2 grams, 101 mg calcium, potassium 272 mg, 48.5 mg sodium, magnesium 33 mg, phosphorus 49 mg, 2.9 mg iron, manganese o.28 mg, 0.45 mg zinc, copper 0.21 mg, 0.53 mg of selenium, carotene 1.16 mg, 0.04 mg thiamine, riboflavin 0.14 mg, ascorbic acid 48 mg, 2.2 mg niacin.
Volatile oil: coriander contains mannitol, linalool, and other volatile oil substances, can increase saliva secretion, accelerate gastrointestinal peristalsis, promote appetite. At the same time, add some coriander in some dishes, can remove the fishy smell, increase the taste of the unique effect.
✵Appetizers and waken the spleen, aid digestion: with the effect of harmonizing the stomach, because of coriander taste spicy, fragrant after eating, taste refreshing, can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis. The person of cold body constitution eats coriander appropriately to be able to alleviate the symptom such as stomach cold ache, food accumulation sluggish, indigestion.
Coriander can promote our digestion and increase appetite: coriander is a kind of spice vegetable that people often eat, have to stimulate appetite, promote digestion and other functions. According to Chinese Medicine records, coriander has the function of warming stomach. The person of cold body constitution eats coriander appropriately to be able to alleviate the symptom such as cold pain of the stomach, indigestion, measles. But the following people should avoid Coriander.
