The effects of wild coriander include relieving coughs, removing rashes and toxins, regulating qi and relieving pain, diuretic and swelling, and treating colds, coughs and wheezing, sore throats, chest pains, and many other conditions. Wild coriander flavor pungent, bitter, neutral, can be attributed to the lung, stomach meridian.
Wild coriander is used in the treatment of epigastric (stomach and abdomen) distension and pain, diarrhea, carbuncle (carbuncle that occurs in the internal organs and is manifested by fever, pain in the right side of the abdomen, and palpable lumps), food accumulation (indigestion of food and stagnation of food in the stomach), vomiting, hepatitis, impenetrable measles, sores, bruises and swelling, gonorrhea, oedema, scald, and snakebite.
Although wild coriander can be used to treat a variety of diseases, it must be used on the basis of traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis. The way of administering the drug varies with different diseases, so it is important to strictly follow the doctor’s instructions and use the correct method of applying wild coriander in order to make the medication fulfill its due efficacy.