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Crude drug name | Market name | Dhaniya |
|---|---|---|
| Urudu name | Dhaniya | |
| Arabic name / Persian name | Kuzbarah / Kishneez | |
| English name | Coriander | |
| Original plant name | Coriandrum sativum Linn., Coriander | |
| Family name | Umbelliferae | |
| Used part | Classification | Plant origin | Sub classification | fruit |
| Collection information | Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Karachi [Karachi], Sind , Amjad Unani Medicine (Pvt.) Ltd. | |
| Collection date | 1994/1/22 | |
| Collector | Tsuneo Namba | |
| Identifier | Javed Ahmad | |
| Description | Features: Oval or sub-globular fruit of greenish yellow or straw colour, upto 5mm in diameter. It consists of two semi-circular mericarps united by their margins. The apex of the fruit has a stylopod. External surface is covered with longitudinally running primary and secondary ridges. The formers are inconspicuous while the latter are straight and prominent on the whole, the fruit gives a ribbed appearance. Odour -spicy; taste - pungent and aromatic. | |
| TMPW No. | 14460 | |
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Scientific information data base
| Crude drug name | Urudu name, English name | Dhaniya, Coriander | |||
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| Arabic name / Persian name | Kuzbarah / Kishneez | ||||
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| Original plant name | Coriandrum sativum Linn. | ||||
| Family name | Umbelliferae | ||||
| Used part | Fruits | ||||
| Distribution area | An aromatic herb, native to the Mediterranean region and is now cultivated chiefly in M.P., Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Bihar for its fruits and leaves which are used as condiment for flavouring curries and soups. | ||||
| Function and properties | Swellings, Head, Eye, Food, Nose, Fevers, Excretion. Aromatic, refrigerant, carminative, stomachic, antibilious, tonic, diuretic and antiseptic. - Fresh: Externally resolvent and sedative, internally sedative on brain, anti-flatulent and maintains body warmth. - Dried: Externally sedative, internally cardiac refrigerant, carminative, anti-flatulent, tonic to brain, stomachic and constipative. | ||||
| Specific actions | Fresh seeds: Carminative, good for appetite and anti-flatulent. Dried: Cardiac refrigerant and anti-flatulent. | ||||
| Frequency in use | Abundant. | ||||
| Common uses | Swellings: It is useful in hot swellings when applied with white lead and vinegar. It is also used with rose oil, honey and dried grape (raisins) in cases of urticaria and eczema and with broad bean, roasted wheat and chicken-pea flours in scrofula. Head: Coriander is useful for alleviating symptoms of giddiness and epilepsy associated with bilious or phlegmatic fevers. Its chief characteristic is to prevent the vapours ascending towards the head. For this purpose it is used as a food additive in epileptic patients with concurrent gas troubles. Moist coriander is soporific and stops epistaxis. Dusting with the powder of dry coriander or month wash with its liquid extract is useful in stomatitis. Eye: Coriander causes dark sightedness. Its liquid extract is mixed up with the milk of woman to form eye drops for treating throbbing of the eye. During small pox its eye drops are used to save eyes. Chest: Its oral intake in a dose of 7 gm. is useful in hot palpitation. Its ingestion with the juice of great plantain stops haemoptysis/hemoptysis. Food: It is slow to digest. It strengthens the hot tempered stomach and if used in roasted form stops vomiting. It reduces the swellings of stomach in case of bilious humour. Nose: It is used as nasal drops after mixing with camphor to check the nose bleeding. Fevers: Its 30gm. liquid extract after adding table sugar is effective for inducing sleep and to check the fevers moving towards the brain. Excretion: Its roasted seeds cause constipation. Fresh coriander, with honey and dried grape raisins, is useful in hot orchitis. | ||||
| Side effect | The fresh and dry coriander reduce the sexual desire, erectile power and the volume of semen. Its oral intake in a higher dose (120gm.), may be fatal because it causes severe depression and fainting. Therefore, its excessive use must be avoided (Avicenna). It may cause obstructions and exert adverse effects on memory. Excessive use of fresh and dry coriander causes mental confusion. It may also cause cold and dementia. | ||||
| Medical system | Unani | ||||
| Traditional concept | Temperament | Coriander is of two kinds (a) fresh or moist coriander and (b) dry coriander. It is cold and dry in the second degree (dry). | |||
| Drug effect | Fresh: Coriander is anti-flatulent and good for appetite. Dried: Cardiac refrigerant and anti-flatulent. | ||||
| Comments | Its fresh leaves are also used medicinally. Aqua coriander is also used which is pleasant and is useful in indigestion. Oil of coriander seed is valuable ingredient in perfumes. | ||||
| Dosage | 12 to 30 gm. (fresh coriander). 5 to 7 gm. (dried coriander). | ||||
| Substitute | Ab Berg e-Khashkhash (Papaver somniferum Linn.), extract of leaves and Ab-Kahu (Lactuca scariola Linn.) extract of lettuce. | ||||
| Important compound preparations | Itrifal Zamani, Itrifal Kishnizi , Tiryaq-I-Nazla, Khamira Gaozaban Sada and `Arq `Amber. | ||||
| References | Reference book Tips！ | Indian Materia Medica, Vols. 1-2, 1976 (Repr. 1989). Nadkarni, A.K., Popular Prakashan Pvt. Ltd., Bombay Vol. 1, pp 381-383. Avicenna's Tract on Cardiac Drugs and Essays on Arab Cardiotherapy, 1983. Hameed, H. A. Hamdard Foundation Press, Karachi. p 49. Makhzanul-Mufradat (Khawasul Adviyah), Hakeem Kabiruddin, Daftar Al-Masih, Qarol Bagh, Delhi. pp 289-291. Dictionary of Economic Plants in India, 1996 (2nd Rep.). Singh, U; Wadhwani, A. M. and Johri B.M. Indian council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi. p 58. Al-Qanun Fil-Tibb. Avicenna. (English translation of the critical Arabic text), Book 2, 1998. Hameed, H. A. (editor), Dept. of Islamic Studies, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi. p 391-393. Hamdard Pharmcopoeia of Eastern medicine, 1969. Said, H. M. (editor), The Times Press, Sadar Karachi. pp 66, 70, 78, 122-123, 198-199. Indusyunic Medicine, 1997. Usmanghani, K., Saeed, A. and Alam, M. T. Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Karachi, Karachi. pp 184-185. Unani Adwiyah Mufradah, 1984. Ali, Saifuddin, A. (3rd edi.). Taraqi-e-Urdu Bureau, R. K. Puram, New Delhi. pp 162-164. | |||
| Remarks | The drug is described by Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and other Unani physicians. It is included among sixty-three drugs which are specifically mentioned by him for cardiac ailments. He states that its fragrance and astringency help it in strengthening the pneuma. Its seeds are also used after removing the external covering of the fruit: Then the drug is called (Maghz-Kishniz) or dried coriander. Its seeds are described under dried coriander. Its leaves and fruits are described under moist coriander. | ||||
| Last renewal date | 2024/02/26 | ||||
