It is not to be confused with coriander, also known as “cilantro”. Eryngium foetidum is recao in english tropical perennial herb in the family Apiaceae. Mexican coriander, bhandhania, long coriander, sawtooth coriander, and ngò gai. Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
This section needs more medical references for verification or relies too heavily on primary sources. Eryngium foetidum has been used in traditional medicine in tropical regions for burns, earache, fevers, hypertension, constipation, fits, asthma, stomachache, worms, infertility complications, snake bites, diarrhea, and malaria. Eryngium foetidum is also known as E. Eryngial is a chemical compound isolated from E.
It is used as an ethnomedicinal plant for the treatment of a number of ailments such as fevers, chills, vomiting, burns, fevers, hypertension, headache, earache, stomachache, asthma, arthritis, snake bites, scorpion stings, diarrhea, malaria and epilepsy. The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species”. Culantro: A much utilized, little understood herb”. Perspectives on new crops and new uses. Singh BK, Ramakrishna Y and Ngachan SV. A commonly used, neglected spicing-culinary herb of Mizoram, India. 471 0 0 0 16 9.
