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Coriander (Coriandrum sativum) is a plant that is a popular spice. Small dried fruit and traded, either crushed or not. Shape similar to crushed pepper, such as small grain diameter 1-2 mm. In the drug trade he called fructus coriandri. In English known as coriander and in Latin America 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 hard seeds called coriander. With the additional seasoning, cooking smells will be more real.

Not only the seeds are often used in cooking. The leaves are compound as it is often thinly sliced celery and used as a topping in dishes such as soups and salads typical of Thailand. In that country, coriander named phak chee. Same with seeds, coriander leaves too pungent.
Typically, these plants are grown in gardens lowlands and mountains. As with celery, this plant only reaches a height of one meter from the ground.
Green leaves with serrated edges. Whereas, for its compound interest tiered umbrella-shaped white and pink. For fruit, almost round shape yellow tiered, if ripe, the fruit is knocked out. After that, the fruit is dried.
There, the seeds are dried In some areas, coriander often given different names.

Benefits of coriander.

The benefits of this plant has been much felt in various countries. Coriander is usually used facilitating digestion, laxative fart (carminative), laxative ASI (lactago), and appetite enhancer (stomachica). His name is different in different countries also in various regions in Indonesia.
The benefits derived from coriander is from the leaves, seeds, and fruit. From all parts of the deposits may be 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 facilitating digestion alone. Coriander is also useful to relieve dizziness, vomiting, influenza, hemorrhoids, stomach ulcers and inflammation of the breast, measles, colds, high blood pressure, and impotence.

Efficacy cilantro for health.

Efficacy cilantro is one kind of spices which are well known in the community as a spice in cooking. All parts of the plant include fruits, seeds, and leaves, even the roots can be utilized. Besides the seeds are often used as a spice, coriander also has many health benefits. Efficacy of coriander leaves is due because they contain chemical compounds known to prevent various diseases. These compounds in them, geraniol, myrcene, ocimene, scopoletin, kamfena, felandren, trantridecen, dekanal, p-simena, oktadasenat, sabinene, desilaldehida, a-terpinene, petroselinat acid, acid d-mannite, and linalool.

Utilization of cilantro for foreign drugs and medications can be done in a way until finely ground and boiled. For foreign drugs, leaves finely pulverized and mixed with other ingredients, such as onion, turmeric and cloves. The mixture is then mixed with water and placed on the affected part. As for the drug, coriander leaves should be boiled first. Then filtered boiled water and drink regularly. The water is also can be added to a variety of mixed materials to reduce the bitterness, for example, plus brown sugar, honey, and cinnamon.

Some coriander leaves for health benefits :

Natural antibiotic.

Coriander leaves can be used as a natural antibiotic to treat various digestive disorders problems, such as diarrhea caused by pathogenic bacteria. This is because coriander leaves contain chemical compounds, especially the type of borneol and cilantro are able to kill the bacteria E. coli, the pathogen causing diarrhea. Efficacy cilantro is not limited to that alone, as a natural antibiotic cilantro are also able to cope with a variety of other health problems, such as gastroenteritis, measles, dizziness, flu, hemorrhoids, high blood pressure, colds, sore breasts, vomiting, and even impotence .

Antioxidants.

Many studies have revealed that the cilantro has a higher antioxidant activity than the seeds. This is because the acid compounds and acid kafeat klorogonik capable of inhibiting free radicals that can lead to oxidation, particularly against the skin. Therefore, if often consume cilantro in a daily diet can protect the skin from wrinkles due to free radical oxidation process which is very dangerous.

The anti-cholesterol.

Efficacy next coriander leaves are able to reduce levels of LDL cholesterol and increase HDL cholesterol in the blood. The most important ingredient of cilantro that serves as antikelosterol are flavonoids. Flavonoids work by inhibiting the absorption of saturated fats from food by the body, then the saturated fat in the liver tied with flavonoids and discharged directly without being absorbed by the bloodstream. Besides, cilantro also serves as a neutralizing toxins contained in the blood, so called natural blood washing materials (blood cleanser).

Relaxation therapy.

As with chocolate, coriander leaves also contain kaempferol compounds that can stimulate an increase in the formation of serotonin and dopamine compounds that can cause a sense of fun. It is very useful for troubleshooting stress naturally without the use of antidepressant medications. In addition, these compounds can also accelerate the burning of glucose into energy so not much carbohydrate residues are stored by the body as fat.
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