Few people know that Vietnamese coriander flowers and bears fruit every year on plants that are not regularly cut or picked. The branches and leaves of Vietnamese coriander are both familiar vegetables and valuable medicinal herbs. This article will tell you why you must have Vietnamese coriander in your home?

According to oriental medicine, Vietnamese coriander has a spicy, hot taste, aromatic smell, warm properties, and has the effect of dispelling cold, improving intelligence, improving eyesight, digesting food, and disinfecting. The effect of Vietnamese coriander when eaten raw warms the stomach, digests food, disinfects, and dispels cold. Vietnamese coriander brightens the eyes, improves intelligence, and strengthens tendons and bones.

Bloody stomach, poor digestion: Use a handful of Vietnamese coriander, wash it, crush it, squeeze out the juice, and drink it. Rub the pulp on the stomach (focus on the navel area).

- In summer, heatstroke: Crush fresh Vietnamese coriander, squeeze the juice, boil it and drink it.

- Treat poor appetite: Vietnamese coriander is used as a spice or use the whole plant, 10-20g, boil it and drink it after meals.

– Cure stomachache, cold stomach, vomiting, heatstroke, thirst: Take fresh red-stemmed Vietnamese coriander juice 25-30 ml/time/day, drink 2 times.

– Cure ringworm, scabies, worms: Soak the whole Vietnamese coriander plant in alcohol. Use that alcohol to apply or crush and rub, apply the residue and bandage it.

– Cure sudden unbearable heart pain: Boil 50g Vietnamese coriander root and add a cup of alcohol to drink, 1 cup each time.

– Cure paralysis, bruises, swelling and pain: Crush fresh Vietnamese coriander and mix with camphor or camphor oil, rub or bandage on numb and painful areas.

– Flu: A handful of Vietnamese coriander, 3 slices of raw ginger. Crush both and squeeze the juice to drink. Or 20g Vietnamese coriander, 20g perilla, 16g Vietnamese balm, 16g Chinese skullcap, 10g Chinese chuanxiong, 10g white peony. 10g Chinese clematis. Boil and drink.

– Snakebite treatment: Crush a handful of Vietnamese coriander and squeeze out the juice for the victim to drink. Apply the pulp to the wound and bandage it (must be done early for best results).

– Foot water: Crush Vietnamese coriander and apply to the injured area. Or crush it and take the juice and apply to the painful area. Twice a day (keep the wound dry to prevent secondary infection).

Note: Vietnamese coriander is not poisonous but can cause harm to the eater if eaten too much and too often. According to oriental medicine doctors, eating a lot of Vietnamese coriander will cause heat and chills, reduce vital energy, damage the marrow, and weaken sexual function.