Despite the cute shape, coriander is not a common kitchen spice. Form of herbs are small granules resembling pepper. But it was smaller. The aroma is also a typical sting, easily distinguished with pepper. No housewife overlook coriander sort of other kitchen spices. Popularity has penetrated almost all over Asia. Especially in Java, you could say some kind of processed will taste bland without cilantro. Moreover, also medicinal.
Excess Coriander
As the drugs listed in the encyclopedia of Java 'Fiber Centhini' and 'Tembangraras'. Recognized coriander is more often used as a spice in various types of cuisine in Indonesia, but there are some health problems can be overcome by cilantro.
Not only the seeds are often used in cooking. The leaves are compound such as celery, sliced thin and is often used as a sprinkling of dishes such as soups and salads typical of Thailand. In that country, coriander named phak chee. Same with the seeds, coriander leaves too pungent.
Coriander Coriandrum sativum scientific language actually originated from southern Europe. Form of a tiny seed beads of 1-2 millimeters. Similar to pepper seeds but smaller and darker. Otherwise it does not feel contained and lighter than pepper.
This plant is commonly cultivated in gardens lowlands and mountains. Like celery, the plants about one meter high. Green leaves with serrated edges. Tiered umbrella-shaped compound flowering white and pink. Shape of a nearly spherical yellow compound, when ripe, the fruit easily knocked. After that, dried.
Presumably this Coprinaceae family terna plants from around the Mediterranean and Caucasus. There, the dried seeds are called Fructus coriandri. In some areas, coriander has a different name. For example tumbar, katombhar, coriander seeds, hatumbar, ketumeur, katumbali, tuncar, katuncar and breeders.
The benefits of this plant has been much felt in many countries. Coriander is usually used facilitating digestion, laxative fart (carminative), peluruh ASI (lactago), and appetite enhancer (stomachica).
The benefits derived from coriander leaves, seeds and fruit. From all parts of the plant being converted into oil content in the form of flying there sabinene, myrcene, a-terpinene, ocimene, linalool, geraniol, dekanal, desilaldehide, trantridecen, petroselinat acid, acid oktadasenat, d-mannite, scopoletin, p-Simena, kamfena, and felandren. Also in Cabe Puyang Heritage Ancestors (Balai Pustaka 1996) mentioned that the coriander also contains fat and ash.
From the Wikipedia encyclopedia says that his usefulness was limited to facilitating digestion alone. Coriander is also useful for relieving dizziness, vomiting, flu, 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 finely ground and boiled, both for external treatment, as well as inside.
Besides the seeds and leaves Spices flavor this dish often turned out to be used as a killer of bacteria and prevent food poisoning.
According to a team of researchers from Portugal, cilantro or coriander in the culinary West called it powerful to kill 12 strains of bacteria. In their study used oil generated from the coriander plant coriander.
Fluids that contain less than 1.6 percent of coriander oil is effective enough to kill bacterial cells, including salmonella, E.colil, as well as bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. Results were published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology.
"Oil of coriander can be used as a natural alternative to conventional antibiotics. We see the future of coriander in clinical medicine in the form of lotion, mouthwash, even a pill that can handle the bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics," said Fernanda Domingues, who led the research.
He explained, coriander oil works by damaging the membrane that surrounds bacteria cells and inhibit essential processes such as breathing, so the bacteria die.
In culinary Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, coriander seeds more often used as a spice, while in other countries leaves are also often used either as a salad dressing or flavoring.
USE
As drugs are usually smoothed out first and then made the dough with water and mixed with other ingredients. Then the dough was placed on the sick. How this is done for flatulence (plus katuk, red onion, and areca nut), headache (plus seed Piang, betel leaves, bangle, and girlfriend Java), and mastitis.
Meanwhile, for the treatment of the usual boiled coriander. Once boiled and added some other ingredients, boiled water is filtered and drunk regularly. This method is used to treat high blood pressure (plus celery), influenza (plus ginger, scallion whites, and honey), cough (plus cinnamon, cat whiskers, and palm sugar), increased breastfeeding, vomiting, gastritis, mushroom poisoning, and others.
If menstruation does not come, use the following concoction, 10 coriander seeds, 1 finger turmeric, 1 nutmeg, cumin seeds 10 black, 3 clove bud, 20 leaves srigading. The whole solid material softened, boiled with 2 cups water to be 1 cup. After chilling filtered, the result while drunk. Do this 2 times a day for a week.
Another way is to roast coriander seeds, finely ground, then brewed with water (hemorrhoids). There is also a smooth cilantro and other ingredients, plus water, filtered and drunk (impotence). To treat a cough, coriander, ginger, and pear on the team, and then eaten. 'The way to overcome the current period was different again. The trick is to smooth the coriander and other ingredients, boiled, then filtered.
Sources: From various sources
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