VARIANT NAMES: Husui, Xiangcai (Fragrant Vegetable), Hucai, Xiangsui, Mantianxing, Yuansui.
ORIGIN: The whole grass with root of Coriandrum sativum [Umblliferae].
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION: Containing 92 to 98 mg% of vitamin C, n-decanoic aldehyde, nonaldehyde, linalool and so on.
NATURE, FLAVOR AND CHANNEL TROPISM: Pungent in flavor and warm in nature, acting on the channels of the lung and spleen.
EFFICIENCIES AND INDICATIONS: Inducing diaphoresis and promoting eruption, promoting digestion and keeping adverse qi flowing downward. It is used to treat Urticaria and Intestinal Obstruction.
DIRECTIONS: To be eaten alter quick-boiled in boiling water, stir-fried, or to be decocted for oral administration or external bathing. It should be avoided by those who suffer from measles that either has erupted or not erupted with toxic heat congested other than attack of wind-cold on body surface.