Doctor Huynh Tan Vu, lecturer of the Faculty of Traditional Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, said that since ancient times, herbs have been used to enhance the flavor of dishes and contribute to disease prevention and treatment. Below are familiar herbs, which are spicy, aromatic, and contain many antioxidants that help increase resistance and are good for health.
1. Coriander
Coriander is also known as Vietnamese coriander. Coriander has a spicy taste, warm properties, is non-toxic, helps digest food, treats wind, clears the bowels, treats difficult-to-grow chickenpox and measles, and clears up poisonous pimples...
2. Lemongrass
Lemongrass is often eaten raw or used as a spice to marinate dishes. Lemongrass has a spicy, aromatic, warm taste, is very good for the digestive system, has the effect of stimulating sweating, is antibacterial, cures coughs due to flu and helps with urination.
Lemongrass is also used to treat muscle spasms, cramps, rheumatism, headaches...
3. Lemon basil
Lemon basil is also known as rau tan. In folk medicine, fresh leaves are often used as raw vegetables in meals. Lemon basil has a sour, pungent taste, warm properties, enters the lungs and has the effect of relieving colds, reducing phlegm, detoxifying and treating colds, cold lungs, has the effect of dispersing wind and cold, reducing phlegm, antiseptic, has the effect of treating sore throat, relieving colds, inducing sweating and curing coughs, curing flu, fever without sweating, ...
Lemon basil (perilla) has a sour, pungent taste and warm properties.
In folk medicine, fresh lemon basil leaves are often used or boiled to drink. In addition, traditional medicine manufacturers often distill lemon basil essential oil combined with some other herbs to produce cough and flu medicine.
4. Basil
According to oriental medicine, basil has a spicy, hot taste, aromatic smell, and has the effect of inducing sweating, diuretic, pain relief, and stimulating digestion. The whole plant is effective in treating flu, fever, headache, cough, stuffy nose, bloating, and indigestion.
5. Mint
Mint is related to basil, a raw herb. Basil is a very effective remedy for treating colds and insect bites, aiding digestion, treating flatulence, rheumatism, hiccups, clearing the throat, treating mild sinusitis, etc.
6. Perilla
Perilla is a medicinal herb classified by oriental medicine as a diaphoretic (inducing sweating) medicine in the group of drugs that disperse wind and cold (a group of diseases caused by cold) and need to be treated by inducing sweating to cure fever. There are two types of perilla: perilla with flat leaf edges, light purple color, less fragrant and perilla with curly leaf edges, dark purple color, strong fragrant.
Not only is it a delicious spice, perilla is also a medicinal plant commonly used in traditional medicine. Perilla has a spicy, warm taste and is effective in treating colds, bloating, and vomiting.
Perilla leaves have a spicy, warm taste.
7. Betel leaves
Piper lolot, also known as tat bat, belongs to the pepper family (Piperaceae). Piper lolot is a wild plant and is grown everywhere. Piper lolot has the effect of warming the middle burner and stomach. Treats vomiting caused by cold air, bloating and pain in the stomach. Treats headaches, toothaches, runny noses, loose stools, and bloody stools.
In folk medicine, betel leaves are often used to treat diseases such as bone and joint pain, gynecological diseases (infections in the vaginal area, itching, vaginal discharge), excessive sweating in hands and feet...
8. Dill
Dill leaves are a familiar and indispensable spice in fish soup, eel soup, snail soup, helping to enhance the delicious flavor of the dish, eliminating the fishy smell. In oriental medicine, dill is a very popular medicine. Dill seeds and leaves are spicy, warm, non-toxic, regulate the dish, nourish the kidneys, stimulate appetite and are good for the digestive system.
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