Coriander seeds: their medicinal properties

Medicinal plants have been popular since ancient times. Coriander seeds are no exception. Their medicinal properties have been known for a very long time, moreover, they are added to medicinal preparations to give them taste and aroma.

 

Even in ancient Greece, India, Rome, they knew that coriander seeds have medicinal properties. Avicenna believed that if you chew fried seeds, vomiting stops. And by combining them with rose oil, honey, raisins and vinegar, they get a remedy for urticaria and anthrax.

 

In India, coriander seeds are used as a tonic, pain reliever, stomachic and diuretic. In Tibet, they are used as a thirst-quenching and antipyretic agent. Our traditional healers with coriander seeds increase appetite and improve digestion, treat hypertension and anemia. Sometimes coriander seeds are used as an anticonvulsant and sedative against neurasthenia.

- for a tincture that soothes the nerves and an excellent antidepressant, pour a tablespoon of coriander seeds with 100 grams of vodka, insist for 15 days (shaking occasionally), strain and use up to 50 drops per day.

- for antihemorrhoid tea, mix in equal proportions: coriander seeds, buckthorn bark, yarrow herb, cassia leaves, licorice roots. Pour a tablespoon of the mixture with a glass of boiling water, insist until cooling, strain and drink half a glass before bedtime.

- for rheumatic pains, mix essential oil from coriander seeds (2-3 drops) with honey and take three times a day after eating.

- for choleretic tea for 1 gram of coriander seeds, take 4 grams of mint flowers, 3 grams of watch leaves, mix, pour 2 tablespoons of the mixture with two glasses of boiling water, hold for 10 minutes over the fire and cool. The strained broth drink half a glass 20 minutes before meals.