Family Name: Apiaceae
Botanical Name(s): Coriandrum Sativum
Popular Name(s): Cilantro and Chinese Parsley, Dhania, Dhanyak,
Kustumbari.
Parts Used: Fruit and fresh leaves
Habitat: It is indigenous to southern Europe, is found
occasionally in Britain in fields and waste places and by the sides of
rivers.
Description: Coriander is an erect annual, with aromatic lobed
leaves, which become more finely divided further up the stem. White to
mauve flowers appear on the stem in umbels in summer, followed by
ribbed, pale brown fruits.
Uses: Coriander is used for dyspeptic complaints, loss of
appetite, and complaints of the upper abdomen. Coriander is also used
traditionally for digestive and gastric complaints as well as for
coughs, chest pains, bladder complaints, leprosy rash, fever, dysentery,
externally for headaches, oral and pharyngeal disorders, halitosis, and
post- partal complications
