Coriander / cilantro

Common name

Coriander / cilantro

Botanical name

Coriandrum sativum

Family

Apiaceae

Part or material

Seed and leaf

Classification

Botanical

Educational category

Culinary Botanicals

Coriandrum sativum L., Apiaceae. The material recorded as Coriandri fructus is the dried split fruit; the essential oil obtained from it is recorded separately as Coriandri aetheroleum.

The dried fruit, the essential oil and the fresh leaf are described as distinct materials. The fruit is the form carried in pharmacopoeial crude-drug listings.

Coriander belongs to the carrot and celery family, and clinical allergy studies record cross-reactive reactions in people already sensitised to celery and to birch or mugwort pollen, alongside other spices of the same family such as anise, fennel and cumin.

Part of this record is still being confirmed with its issuing authority. What is published is what the sources carry, and nothing more.

• KEGG DRUG Coriandrum sativum fruit · Institutional reference source
• clinical allergy studies in Allergy and Clinical and Experimental Allergy · Peer-reviewed scientific literature

This entry is educational. It is not medical advice, not a diagnosis, and not a statement about any Pam Oh Herbs Collection or its contents. It carries no dosage and no claim of effect.

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