Coriander

Ketumbar / Coriander (Coriandrum sativum) is a plant spice. Small dried fruit and traded, either crushed or not. Shapes similar to crushed pepper, such as small grains 1-2 mm in diameter. In the drug trade he called fructus coriandri. In English known as coriander and in the United States known as cilantro. This plant comes from southern Europe and around the Caspian Sea.
Various types of traditional Indonesian dishes often use herbs in the form of pellets flavored seeds are called coriander. With the addition of the spices and aromas will be more real.
Coriander is physically similar to pepper. Coriander has a slightly yellowish color, while the color is usually a bit of white pepper. Cilantro is usually used for add taste, and smell that could create a fragrant aroma of fragrant dishes. Javanese cuisine usually use coconut milk and cilantro for seasoning vegetables Javanese grilled chicken with soy sauce and sugar plus red.
Not only the seeds are often used in cooking. Compound leaves like celery is often sliced ​​thinly and used as a topping in dishes such as soups and salads typical of Thailand. In that country, coriander named Phak chee. Together with its seeds, coriander leaves too pungent.
Typically, these were planted in the gardens of the lowlands and mountains. As with celery, this plant only reaches a height of one meter from the ground.
Green leaves with serrated edges. the flowers tiered white and pink. For fruit, nearly round shape yellow double decker, When ripe, the fruit easily knocked out. After that, the dried fruit.
There, the seeds are dried in some areas, coriander are often given a different name.
Chinese name: Shi Yan, Fan Sui Yan, Yuen Sai-Swee Wan (herb), Hu Sui (fruits)
English name: Coriander, Chinese Parsley, Indian Parsley (herb)
Tamil: Kottamalli
Benefits of cilantro
The benefits of this plant has been much felt in various countries. Cilantro is usually used facilitating digestion, laxative fart (carminative), laxative milk (lactago), and appetite enhancer (stomachica). Names were different in various countries are also in various regions in Indonesia.
Benefits of cilantro is taken from the leaves, seeds, and fruit. Of all the parts that form the content contained sabinene, myrcene, a-terpinene, ocimene, linalool, geraniol, dekanal, desilaldehida, trantridecen, petroselinat acid, oktadasenat acid, d-mannite, scopoletin, p-simena, kamfena, and felandren.
Usefulness is not limited to only facilitating digestion. Coriander is also useful to relieve dizziness, vomiting, influenza, hemorrhoids, stomach ulcers and inflammation of the breast, measles, colds, high blood pressure, and impotence.
The use of coriander can be done in various ways, such as finely ground and boiled, both for treatment outside, and inside.
for the treatment of coriander are usually boiled. Once boiled and added a few other ingredients, boiled and filtered water taken regularly. This method is used for the treatment of high blood pressure (plus celery), influenza (plus ginger, garlic leaves, and honey), cough (plus cinnamon, cat whiskers, and palm sugar), increased breastfeeding, vomiting, gastritis, mushroom poisoning, and others.

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